WordPad is a word processor software with basic formatting options, and it is included in all versions of Windows Operating System. Here this article will guide you how to open and use WordPad in Windows 10 and reset its settings if things go wrong.
Wordpad is a notepad app and todo app for android which provides you a quick and simple note making experience when you write notes, memos, messages, telephone numbers and also for preparing shopping lists and to-do lists. Features:- Supports snaps notes Automatically saves work Manages everything under directories Lock/unlock capability Easy to use Free from Ads. WordPad is a powerful yet simple version of MS Word which we use almost daily in our lives. In this article, we will learn how to Uninstall/Re-install Microsoft WordPad in Windows 10.
How to Open WordPad in Windows 10
There are 4 ways to start a WordPad and create a new rick text document.
Way 1: Open WordPad via Run
Press Win+R to open Run box. Input WordPad, then hit Enter.
A new blank and untitled WordPad will be automatically launched on your computer.
Way 2: Open WordPad using Cortana Search
Type wordpad into taskbar search box, and press Enter.
Way 3: Open WordPad from Start Menu
Go to the Start Menu and click All apps, you can find it under Windows Accessories folder.
Way 4: Open WordPad via Context Menu
Right-click on blank area in Desktop or File Explorer, select New > Rich Text Document.
How to Customize WordPad Document
1. Specify the font for text by changing the font settings.
Click the Home options, change the font setting as you want. Here you can even insert a image, if you like.
2. Change the appearance of a WordPad document.
On the File menu, click Page Setup. In the Page Setup dialog box, click a size in Size.
How to Print a WordPad Document
To qiuckly print a WordPad Document use shortcut key: Ctrl+P.
Step 1: In a WordPad document, click on File option, then click on Print option.
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Step 2: To see how your document will look before you print it, click Print Preview.
Step 3: Select the printer and preferences you want, and then click Print.
Note: You must have a default printer set in the Printers folder.
Learn more how to conntect a printer see 2 Ways to Connect a Printer to Over Newwork.
How to Reset WordPad to its Default Settings
Step 1: Press Win+R to open Run, type regedit, and hit Enter.
Step 2: In Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppletsWordpad
On the right pane of Registry Editor, under WordPad, delete Options key.
Exit and open WordPad again, you will see it with its default settings.
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WordPad is a text-editing program available in the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Follow these step-by-step instructions to use WordPad
This article assumes that you have a PC with Windows 7 installed.
Step 1: Open WordPad. The screen should look like this:
Step 2: You’re now going to choose a font – the design in which the letters you’ll be typing will appear.
In the third row from the top of the screen, you’ll see a box with a name in it (in this example, ‘Calibri’) and a little downward-pointing arrow. The arrow indicates that this is a drop-down list. When you click on the arrow, it will turn orange and a list will drop down.
This particular list consists of all the fonts that you can choose to create your document. Scroll down the list and you’ll find even more fonts.
Let’s assume that you’d like to use the ‘Arial’ font. Click Arial on the list. The name will now appear in the box at the top of the screen.
Step 3: Type ‘Good Morning’ and press the ‘Enter’ key. Have a look at what you’ve done.
Step 4: Choose another font, type ‘Good Morning’ again and press ‘Enter’. Now compare the two. Here we’ve chosen ‘Broadway’ as the second font.
Step 5: You can also change the size of the letters. Next to the font box near the top of the screen, you’ll find another box containing a number (’11′ in this example). As you did with the font box arrow, click the arrow in this box. A drop-down list appears that consists of numbers. These are the numbers of ‘points’ that letters are measured in. By selecting a bigger or smaller number, you can choose how big to make your writing.
Click ’20′ and type ‘Good Morning’ again.
Step 6: Here’s a shortcut to changing the size of your letters. Next to the number box you’ll see two squares, each one containing a letter ‘A’, one bigger than the other (see right).
If you click on the button with the bigger ‘A’, the size of your text will get bigger. If you click on the other button, it will become smaller.
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Step 7: Now experiment with the font tools, which you’ll find under the font box. They are:
- B bold
- I italic
- U underline
- abc strike through
- subscript
- superscript
plus the highlighting tool and the font colour tool, both of which you need to click to cause a drop-down list to appear.
If you place your cursor over each of the buttons, a description of what it does opens. Below you can see what ‘B’ stands for:
Try out each font tool. Below we’ve changed the font back to Arial, size 16, and then tried each button in turn.
Step 8: Now try WordPad’s aligning tools. These push text to one margin or the other (‘align left’ and ‘align right’), centre each line (‘centre align’) or make both sides straight.
To the right of the box containing the font colour tool, you’ll see a row of four similar boxes with lines representing text arranged in four different ways:
Logitrace serial keygen download. Place your cursor over each one for a description, then try them. Highlight some text by clicking on it three times in quick succession. Then click on one of the aligning tools to see where the text moves to.
These tools are very handy for such jobs as centring a title or placing an address on the right. Here’s what happens with ‘Good Morning’ by clicking on each of the first three boxes:
Step 9: To the right of the aligning tools, you’ll find four insert tools.
With these, you click to insert a picture from a file, draw a picture to insert in your document, automatically insert the date and time or add a particular object. Try experimenting with them.
Step 10: You can change the way a word looks after you’ve typed it. Simply double-click on it to highlight it – it turns blue to show that it’s been selected.
You can now use any of the tools above to change the word – for instance, changing its font or size.
While it was selected, ‘something’ was changed to a 36 point size and made bold, underlined and red!
Step 11: You can also change a paragraph. If you triple-click within one, this will highlight it entirely. You can then change its size and colour, make it italic and underline and centre it:
Step 12: One of the most important things to learn to do with your work in WordPad is to save it. That way, you can turn off the computer and later go back to what you’d done. But you really should save your work every few minutes. Then, if there’s a power cut, you’ll lose only a few minutes’ work.
To save, go to the top left-hand corner of the WordPad screen and click the arrow in the blue box:
The ‘File’ drop-down list appears. Now click Save. This saves the document exactly as it is.
Step 13: There’s another way of saving your work – by using the ‘Save as’ option. If you use this, you can change some of the document’s attributes – its name or its format, for instance.
To use ‘Save as’, place your cursor over Save as. A new menu appears to the right. Move your cursor straight to the right on to this and click Rich Text document. (‘Rich Text’ is a format that allows you to embed images and other things.) The name of your document will now end with ‘.rtf’.
The ‘Documents library’ now appears. This is where your saved document will be kept. In the box below the main screen, headed ‘File name’, type in a name for your document. Here, ‘First attempt’ is the file name:
It’s important that a document’s name relates to its content – for example, ‘letter to bank’ – so that you can find it again later.
Now click Save to keep this document in the Documents library.
Step 19: Finally, as well as saving your document in digital form within your computer, you can also print it. Open the ‘File’ drop-down list again and, this time, select Print. Then, moving your cursor to the new menu on the right, click Quick print:
As long as your printer is set up and turned on, your document will print.
Done!
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Stephen Baird-Parker is a DU tutor and a qualified ICT teacher