I always thought wordpad was underappreciated
“The company now suggests the Microsoft Word app as a replacement for WordPad users”
uh no, libreoffice works great, thanks for the suggestion tho.
They suggest using Word instead… is there a free version of Word?
Open office and Libre office.
It’s dumb though because WordPad is a very lightweight program for quickly jotting down stuff.
Notepad has always been better than WordPad for quickly jotting stuff down.
I’m sure there’s a use case for WordPad, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it because Notepad.
Notepad for life. If you dont need to do fancy formatting, why would you ever need anything other than plain text?
TED notepad is great. And free too. https://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
honestly, notepad.exe has done what I want and nothing more for 30 years running and there is no reason to look elsewhere
Or you know…piracy 🏴☠️
Why not just promote open source? Unless maybe if you need it for a career. Even if you’re …pirating just boycott that shit, lol.
Agreed. If you’re sharing files in Office file formats, even if you pirated the software, you’re still indirectly promoting their software.
LibreOffice can read and export to Microsoft Office formats. So there’s really no reason to pirate Microsoft Office even if you technically need it for a job (and if the IT guy complains about “non-standard software”, threaten to get him written up by HR for wasting company hours complaining instead of actually doing his job).
Except for those cases where it can’t. There’s always some small, but important, discrepancies. Never have I been able to actually use Libre Writer instead of Word when another party is using Word - same goes for Calc and Excel, sadly. Excel is an absolute UX nightmare for me and I violently hate using it.
I wish the whole world would just drop Microsoft office like the bad product it is and went to libre. Yeah, it was innovative when it first hit the scene, but now it’s just become stale and pointlessly expensive.
For me it was powerpoint presentations.
Of all the things to pirate, I think an office suite is probably one of the lameat ones. I tend to be very critical of open source software but the open source office programs I’ve used were perfectly adequate. Not nearly as slick, but fine.
Critical in what way? UX I do understand, but libre/free software is far superior in terms of security and user freedom/choice and for office suites this extends to better compatibility between suites using the .odt (open document) format and whatnot. Lemmy is free/libre software too, and it’s demonstrably better in several ways because of it.
Technically yes if you use the online version in a browser with an account, but better to just get always free libreoffice and replace the whole works.
Google docs
Should replace it with a markdown editor
I’m surprised how slow notepad software is at adopting markdown.
Where nearly every browser based text editor has it built-in
Tbh markdown is not that great… there is always some functionality missing, that some editors implement but then it’s not following a standard format which sucks…
I feel like we should have something better, not at latex level of course but better than markdown.
I’m surprised they didn’t borrow from Apple and combine plain text and rich text into one app. Text Edit as a toggle in the menu to switch between them.
Though to be fair, discovery of this is probably an issue. I think most people think Text Edit is rich text only.
Wordpad always felt like a transitional between Notepad and Office, but for the average person, the transitional wasn’t needed. If you wanted no frills, notepad was right there. If you needed extras why not just use Office just in case you needed more extras then you thought?
Of course now I use Notepad++ instead of notepad so it fills the Notepad and Wordpad spots.
Well I mean if you wanted something more than notepad and you didn’t want to pay, WordPad was right there… Of course you could install something else but this was included.
@stefenauris So we have to now subscribe to Office! I use Word Pad. Word pad is automatically installed on my laptop.
If you use wordpad just switch over the Libreoffice. It gas far more features and is already compatible with .RTF files.
