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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I like using it when I want to create a simple rtf document and not use a bloated Office.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    as a replacement, markdown is your friend. you can learn the symbols or (harder option) find a markdown wyswyg editor program.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Or, and hear me out on this, you create an unholy mixture of MD/HTML/Latex documents in a plaintext editor and then you use the Pandoc CLI to make it into a PDF/DOCX/website/whatever.

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