Thread: Difference between Notepad and WordPad?

What is the difference between Notepad and WordPad?

Both programs are text editors that are added with the Windows OS. Notepad is the most basic text editor, which permits you to open and create text (.txt) files. While you can create some paragraphs of text with Notepad, using line breaks the program does not give you text formatting options. For instance, you cannot change the font size or make the text bold.

WordPad is like to Notepad, but provides you lots of formatting options. You can utilize bold and italics formatting, and change the font, size, and color of the text. You can also make bulleted lists and center and justify paragraphs. WordPad permits you to save documents as also basic text (.txt) files or rich text format (.rtf) files. Saving a document in the rich text format will be all the formatting you have completed to the text, while saving it as a basic text file will remove all text formatting from the document.

Notepad is a good choice for creating web pages (HTML-documents) and write scripts or basic computer programs, as these types of documents that do not require formatting. It is also useful for removing formatting that you want to copy and paste to another place as plain text. Just paste this text into Notepad, copy it into Notepad, and again, and you get a completely plain text.

WordPad is a good choice for writing reports or creating documents that you would like to print. It is also perfect for making lists, because it supports the bullets. You can use WordPad to open a plain text document and add all the formatting you want. If you would like more formatting options and more user-friendly interface, you can use programs such as Microsoft Word.