Good replacement for Wordpad

[skeeter]

Whats a good replacement for Wordpad. For years I have
used CWordPad. but it is no longer supported by Cetus
and doesn't work right in Win XP. Any suggestions?
TIA. Walt

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

Whats a good replacement for Wordpad. For years I have

used CWordPad. but it is no longer supported by Cetus
and doesn't work right in Win XP. Any suggestions?
TIA. Walt

Give Win32Pad a shot. It's free.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[Tim Slattery]

Whats a good replacement for Wordpad. For years I have
used CWordPad. but it is no longer supported by Cetus
and doesn't work right in Win XP. Any suggestions?

Open Office (www.openoffice.org)

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Whats a good replacement for Wordpad. For years I have
used CWordPad. but it is no longer supported by Cetus
and doesn't work right in Win XP. Any suggestions?

A question like this is very difficult to answer intelligently, unless
you tell us in what way WordPad doesn't meet your needs.

 

[crazyal]

What about Microsoft Word?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

What about Microsoft Word?

I'll bite. What about it?

As a replacement for WordPad? I think of WordPad as an overgrown text
editor. If you use it for text editing purposes, replacing it with
Microsoft Word is enormous overkill.

On the other hand, if you think of WordPad as a word processor, be
aware that it has extremely primitive word processing capability, and
just barely, if at all, qualifies for that name. Anyone who considers
it a word processor would probably find that the capability of Word
(or any real word processor) to be *far* more than he needs, and there
too it will probably be overkill.

Replacing WordPad with something like Word or WordPerfect is like
replacing a Yugo with a Rolls Royce--probably much more than is
needed.

As I said, it's not possibile to give the OP an intelligent answer
unless he tells us how he uses WordPad and in what way he finds it
deficient.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Whats a good replacement for Wordpad. For years I have
used CWordPad. but it is no longer supported by Cetus
and doesn't work right in Win XP. Any suggestions?
TIA. Walt

Not knowing what you need out of it - I suggest PSPad...

 

[skeeter]

Thanks for all the suggestions. What I really want is a
vey basic word processon. I have Word, WordPerfect.
What I want is something that has RTF capabilities, i.e
enables formattion, which Wordpad doesn't. Thanks.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks for all the suggestions. What I really want is a
vey basic word processon. I have Word, WordPerfect.
What I want is something that has RTF capabilities, i.e
enables formattion, which Wordpad doesn't. Thanks.

Both Word and WordPerfect (my personal favorite) support rtf.

If you want a very basic word processor, either one will have much
more capability than you need. I wouldn't recommend that you buy
either one.

But on the other hand, if you already have both, you can use either,
and just use only the features you want/need. There's really no
downside to this (it doesn't hurt you to have unused features), and,
as far as I'm concerned, no reason to acquire a third word processor.