What is the differance between Word Pad and Microsoft Word ?
I have XP Home Edition,that has word pad how does it differ from Microsoft Word?
I have XP Home Edition,that has word pad how does it differ from Microsoft Word?
The Phlebob
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About as much as a lightning bug differs from lightning. Wordpad is simply Notepad on vitamins. Word can do far more with words -- formatting, tables of contents, indexes, page headers and footers, mail merge, to name a hand full -- than can Wordpad, but it also costs far more.
Hope that helps.
nf119
Word Pad is like the water down version of Microsoft Word - it was called Write when MS Word wasn't even born.
Basically it's just a simple program to type up stuff. It doesn't have advance features like MS Word has - of course it doesn't its bundle with ever version of Windows!
TameBeast
Word Pad is just a cheap word processor.
The guy above is correct. Here's another one:
http://www.abisource.com/
TNguy
Word is more functional.
If you really need Word, you can get Open Office for free, and its compatible.