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A cynical yet secular shiny retrogamer, thread ressurector and fan of the word "gay".
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Re: What is the point of Windows having the word processor program called "WordPad"?
05/06/12 03:31 AM
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Wordpad is a full-featured, basic editor, so you can use it for any letter/message writing, add in any font, use any color (although custom colors won't get added to the stock list). I also use it when I'm writing batch files or the like.
I'm oldskool: If I work with plaintext I use a very fast, mean & lean plaintext editor. If I need to get elaborate I whip out the big gun in the form of LibreOffice. ;-)
What's interesting is how much faster LibreOffice is when compared to OpenOffice.org. The story is that the Sun/Oracle bureaucracy kept a lot of good fixes from being applied to the main core. That's why there was a fork known as "Go-OO".
When Oracle discontinued OpenSolaris the OpenOffice.org community was concerned about the same fate awaiting them. The core of that community forked and LibreOffice was born. LibreOffice then applied the many fixes that were in the "Go-OO" codebase and it simply got much better without Oracle getting in the way of progress.
Sure, I could use WordPad. But I've become so used to using LibreOffice that it's second nature for me to pop that open first. Anything that's related to word processing gets loaded by it and that's fine by me. And that can range from composing correspondence all the way up to full book and newsletter layouts. Plus I have tools to publish from LibreOffice to ePub, Mobi and other formats.
Imagine that! A completely free electronic publishing solution! Nook and Kindle users who are curious on how to self-publish should check that out. ;-)
Besides, sometimes I need to doodle with vector graphics via the Draw module. Okay. I doodle A LOT with vector graphics via Draw. ;-)
--Bekki
Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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