Setting font in Wordpad permanently TIA

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How would I set the font in Wordpad permanently or get rid of Wordpad &
use Notepad instead?
Wordpad "returns" to it's small font after re-setting to larger font.
All help welcome.
 
There is no such option in Wordpad to use a Font or Font Size as Default.
However, you can use Microsoft Word for the same, where you can use many of
your favorite settings as Default settings. Formatting a document in Notepad
is not suggested.

Opening a formatted Wordpad or Word document in Notepad will also not work
well.
 
sandy58 said:
How would I set the font in Wordpad permanently or get rid of Wordpad
& use Notepad instead?
Wordpad "returns" to it's small font after re-setting to larger font.
All help welcome.
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Notepad is a simple text editor and Wordpad is just one teensy step
above that. Those programs don't have advanced options. If you are
doing word processing, then you need to get and install a word
processor. If you don't want to pay for one (MS Word, Corel Word
Perfect) you can get a very good office suite from OpenOffice
(www.openoffice.org) for free. OO can save in MS and Corel formats as
well as its own native format.

If you are doing coding, then you want a text editor (not Wordpad) and
there are many text editors that are better than Notepad. Google for
them.

Malke
 
sandy58 said:
How would I set the font in Wordpad permanently or get rid of Wordpad
& use Notepad instead?
Wordpad "returns" to it's small font after re-setting to larger font.
All help welcome.
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You can't. WordPad is not meant to be a full-fledged word processing
program. It's not much more than a simple text editor.

If you use a word processor instead of WordPad, you will get this ability,
as well as many other word processing features. Choices include Word,
WordPerfect, the inexpensive StarOffice, and the freeware OpenOffice.
 
Ken Blake said:
You can't. WordPad is not meant to be a full-fledged word processing
program. It's not much more than a simple text editor.
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I bet you can - I recall a fax from Micro$oft in the early 1990s (when
M$ used to reply to support questions) telling me how to do it under
win3.1

I don't have the details handy anymore but it goes something like
this: create a page, with a few characters, set them to the desired
font, save it as e.g. blank.txt and then put that file as a command
line parameter (under Properties in the shortcut) to Notepad or
Wordpad. That font will be the default font when you start the
program.

Or something very similar...
 
Peter said:
I bet you can - I recall a fax from Micro$oft in the early 1990s (when
M$ used to reply to support questions) telling me how to do it under
win3.1

I don't have the details handy anymore but it goes something like
this: create a page, with a few characters, set them to the desired
font, save it as e.g. blank.txt and then put that file as a command
line parameter (under Properties in the shortcut) to Notepad or
Wordpad. That font will be the default font when you start the
program.
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You can certainly do that, but I'd call it a wordaround, not really setting
a default font.

Still, it's a workaround that might be useful to the OP, so I'm glad you
mentioned it.
 
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