The Capable Word Processor All of You Have Right At Your Fingertips
We are often asked to recommend a good alternative for Microsoft Office, especially an alternative word processor. While there are some excellent free choices for alternate office suites and word processors available, most Windows users don’t know they have a very capable word processor right at their fingertips. It’s called WordPad.
WordPad has been unceremoniously upgraded over the years and is available on every Windows 10, and Windows 11 PC. All you have to do is type WordPad in the taskbar search to open it.
Here’s an example of WordPad’s capabilities. Here’s a WordPad document I just created for this article. As you can see you can insert images, change fonts, change text formatting, size, color, and a lot more. You can do strike-throughs and other special text effects – check out the screenshot below.
And when you’re finished creating your WordPad document, you can save it in many formats, including RTF (Rich Text Format) which you can open in MS Word, and several others.
And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a free program that can open MS Word documents give WordPad a try. It can open Word Documents too. Here’s an old MS Word document I have had on my computer for years.
And here’s another MS Word document open in WordPad…
We hope this encourages you to give the word processor you have right at your fingertips a chance – you might find a lot of uses for it.
WordPad… the very capable word processor you have right at your fingertips. It’s time to give it a try.
I like and use WordPad. It is not nearly as cumbersome as Word.
Wow !
Great news ! plan to try it.
Thanks
Is this Wordpad as good as Ableword? If so, should I remove Ableword from my computer and just use WordPad?
Hmmm Can it do labels I wonder? I’m going to give it a try. Thanks for the tip.
I would love to use it. Right now, I’m using the MS Office I paid for ($69.99). I need Excel equivalent that is free. Is that available, too? I’d love to use free WordPad if it can do almost everything Microsoft Office can do. Does it?
Thanks, TC and Darcy.
By no means is WordPad a replacement for Microsoft Office. It’s not even a replacement for MS Word. It’s a capable word processor – that’s it. It does not replace MS Office programs. There are free office suites that do replace most MS Office programs. You can read about some of those here.