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Wordpad - what's the point, what's the use?
I've read about 10 posts on Wordpad. Various questions, various answers. Sometimes I do get carried away with things that aren't that important in the grand scheme of things, and this is one of those times. But I do like discussing rationale and hypotheticals as well as actually wondering if I'm missing something that might really be important. I also like to play the speculation game - what were they thinking? (This game works good with Google - it's almost if they are sitting back laughing at us, that we go along with it. Either than, or they just can't see the forest for the trees).
I rarely use WP. But my main puter is down, wlll be just for a couple days. Not worth installing Office on this old one.
I copied a paragraph of text from the web containing a hyperlink. Can't edit the "link" or format the text. Only delete. I know what I can to to fix this, all the workarounds but this post is more about rationale.
Somewhere at MS HQ, there's a small cluster of cubicles with few programmers who, among other things, write the code for Wordpad. Were there meetings to discuss how WP should function as part of Win 7? Obviously they needed something as part of the OS more than Notepad but could't give away Word.
And it does that - creates a RTF file, ability for some formatting. But look at the other stuff - Paste Special, Insert Object - it's just a bunch of menu items with nothing hooked up. Or so it seems.
Any other programs like this in Win 8? Do they both use the same Live Essentials? if so, that's too bad - the photo gallery and movie maker are great in concept, but just - I don't know, there's gotta be a way to make these apps easy to use but more - better - overall. Thanks.