WordPad
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 WordPad from Windows 8 |
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| developer | Microsoft |
| Publishing year | 1995 (with Windows 95 ) |
| Current version | see Microsoft Windows |
| operating system | Windows |
| category | Word processing |
| License | proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
| windows.microsoft.com | |
WordPad is a compact word processing program from Microsoft with some formatting options. However, it does not contain nearly as many functions as other word processing programs from Office suites .
Windows WordPad
WordPad has been supplied with all versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 95 . WordPad is the successor to Microsoft Write that was included in previous versions of Windows. As a leftover from this time, WordPad can also be called up in current Windows versions with the “write” command.
Shortly before the delivery of Windows 95, WordPad was published as an MFC -3.2 example as source code , which is still publicly available today.
From Windows 95 to Windows Vista the engines RichEdit 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.1 were used, since Windows XP SP2 and also for Vista updates RichEdit 4.1 was used.
In the Windows 7 version it has been completely revised. The ribbon interface known from Office 2007 was installed. It is similar to the Microsoft Office interface . WordPad has also been expanded to include a number of functions, and other file formats (see below) are also supported.
File formats
In addition to plain text files in ANSI (Windows format / ISO 8859 ) and ASCII ("MS-DOS format", in contrast to Notepad ), WordPad can process files in the universally popular Rich Text Format (RTF), its main format . Since Windows XP is Unicode support. For example, Windows Server 2000 write UTF-16 BE and Windows 7 write UTF-16LE. In Windows 7, a UTF-8 -formatted text file is read correctly, but is written as a “text file” (= ANSI) with a simple “save”. With "Save as" and the selection "Unicode" a UTF-16LE file is written.
As of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 SP2, read support for the program's own file format of its predecessor Microsoft Write (.wri files) and for Microsoft Word 6 files has been switched off for security reasons. If necessary, it can be reactivated via the registry, but then only files from trustworthy sources should be opened.
As of the version in Windows 7 , it is able to read and write Office Open XML (.docx) and OpenDocument (.odt). Documents in other formats will open as plain text documents and may not display as expected.
user interface
Version 5.1 under Windows XP
Version 6.2 on Windows 8
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Source code of WordPad on MSDN
- ↑ MurrayS3: RichEdit versions , blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/, October 13, 2006.
- ↑ MurrayS3: RichEdit Versions 1.0 through 3.0 , blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/, January 12, 2010.
- ↑ Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-010 - Critical. Vulnerabilities in WordPad and Office Text Converters Could Allow Remote Code Execution (960477) . Version 1.3, released: April 14, 2009, update: June 17, 2009, technet.microsoft.com
- ↑ MS09-073: Description of the security update for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 , KB 973904, December 8, 2009, Version 6.0 from April 8, 2011.