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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed (gizmodo.com)

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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It's truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The main reason why I used WordPad was because 'write' is shorter than both 'notepad' and 'msword' in the run menu.

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[–] subtext@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Whenever I need notepad, I just write ‘text’ (for text editor), and it shows up.

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[–] nihth@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Does msword work? Always used winword

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

oh yeah winword was the right one (my last Windows computer only has LibreOffice so it's been a hot minute) :P

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