Editing WordPad (section)

==Features==
[[File:Windows CE 5.0 WordPad in Emulator.png|thumb|WordPad running on [[Windows CE 5.0]]]]
WordPad can format and print text, including font and bold, italic, colored, and centered text, and lacks functions such as a [[spell checker]], [[thesaurus]], and control of [[pagination]]. It does not support footnotes and endnotes. WordPad can read, render, and save many [[Rich Text Format]] (RTF) features that it cannot create, such as tables, strikeout, [[superscript]], subscript, "extra" colors, text background colors, numbered lists, right and left indentation, quasi-[[hypertext]] and URL linking, and line-spacing greater than 1. It is simpler and faster than a richly-featured word processor, with low system resource use. Pasting into WordPad from an HTML document, such as a Web page or email, typically automatically converts most or all of it to RTF, depending partly on the Web browser from which the text is copied. WordPad is suited to taking notes; writing letters and stories; and use on various tablets, PCs, and smart phones. It is unsuitable for work that relies heavily on graphics and typesetting, such as most publishing-industry requirements for rendering final hard copy.

A character not on the keyboard can be entered into WordPad by typing its hexadecimal [[code point]] in [[Unicode]] followed by {{key press|Alt|X}}. Likewise, the code point of a character from another application can be determined by [[cut, copy, and paste|copying]] it into WordPad followed by {{key press|Alt|X}}.

WordPad does not support all the features defined in the RTF/Word 2007 specification.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} Earlier versions of WordPad also supported the "Word for Windows 6.0" format, which is [[Forward compatibility|forward compatible]] with the Microsoft Word format.<ref name="DocGone" />

In Windows 95, 98, and 2000, WordPad uses Microsoft's RichEdit control, versions 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, respectively.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2010/01/13/richedit-versions-1-0-through-3-0.aspx |title=RichEdit Versions 1.0 through 3.0 – Murray Sargent: Math in Office |website=Blogs.msdn.com |date=2010-01-12 |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118002540/http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2010/01/13/richedit-versions-1-0-through-3-0.aspx |archive-date=18 January 2010 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> In Windows XP SP1 and later,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2006/10/14/richedit-versions.aspx |title=RichEdit versions – Murray Sargent: Math in Office |website=Blogs.msdn.com |date=2006-10-13 |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100123145455/http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2006/10/14/richedit-versions.aspx |archive-date=23 January 2010 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and Windows 7, it uses RichEdit 4.1.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2009/06/19/wordpad-numbering-limit.aspx |title=WordPad Numbering Limit – Murray Sargent: Math in Office |website=Blogs.msdn.com |date=2009-06-19 |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620203959/http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2009/06/19/wordpad-numbering-limit.aspx |archive-date=20 June 2009 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

A similar word processor, also called WordPad and with simple functionality, is supplied by some vendors on a [[Windows CE]] pre-installation.<ref>[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/embedded/gg469874%28v%3dwinembedded.70%29 WordPad (Compact 7) | Microsoft Docs]</ref> Its [[icon (computing)|icon]] resembles an early [[Microsoft Word]] icon.