We are often asked to recommend a good alternative for Microsoft Office, especially an alternative word processor. While there are some excellent free choices for alternate office suites and word processors available, most Windows users don’t know they have a very capable word processor right at their fingertips. It’s called WordPad.<\/span><\/p>\n WordPad has been unceremoniously upgraded over the years and is available on every Windows 10, and Windows 11 PC.\u00a0 All you have to do is type WordPad in the taskbar search to open it.<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s an example of WordPad’s capabilities.\u00a0 Here’s a\u00a0 WordPad document I just created for this article. As you can see you can insert images, change fonts, change text formatting, size, color, and a lot more. You can do strike-throughs and other special text effects – check out the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n And when you’re finished creating your WordPad document, you can save it in many formats, including RTF (Rich Text Format) which you can open in MS Word, and several others.<\/span><\/p>\n And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a free program that can open MS Word documents give WordPad a try. It can open Word Documents too.\u00a0 Here’s an old MS Word document I have had on my computer for years.<\/span><\/p>\n And here’s another MS Word document open in WordPad…<\/span><\/p>\n We hope this encourages you to give the word processor you have right at your fingertips a chance – you might find a lot of uses for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n WordPad… the very capable word processor you have right at your fingertips. It’s time to give it a try.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Capable Word Processor All of You Have Right At Your Fingertips We are often asked to recommend a good alternative for Microsoft Office, especially an alternative word processor. While there are some excellent free choices for alternate office suites and word processors available, most Windows users don’t know they have a very capable word processor\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1912,3105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23416,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23410\/revisions\/23416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"WordPad](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/wpad.png\")
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