DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NOTEPAD AND WORDPAD
Difference Between Notepad and Wordpad | |
Notepad | WordPad |
Definition: Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows and a basic text-editing program which enables computer users to create documents. | Definition: WordPad is the basic word processor using which we can format and print text. |
It was launched by Microsoft in the year 1983 | It was launched by Microsoft along with Windows 95 |
No formatting related to the text can be done. Focus is completely on creating text files with minimum formatting features | Formatting options like bold, italics, font style and size, etc. are available |
It is a better choice for creating webpages. It can only save .txt files | Files can be saved in the form of basic documents (.txt) and rich text documents (.rtf) |
Minimalistic in terms of formatting the text | An unformatted file can be formatted using Wordpad |
Images or graphics cannot be added in Notepad | Images can be added in Wordpad |
Visually, a Notepad has only 5 options. This includes File, Edit, View, Format and Help | More options are visually available in a Wordpad |
.rtf Wordpad files cannot be opened with Notepad | Any Notepad file (.txt) can be opened with Wordpad |
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