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WordPad was always useful to read RTF files, which used to be pretty common. I guess they have been replaced by PDFs at this stage.

Would still be nice if Windows had some sort of basic word processor, as WordPad had functionality that many users would still find useful, basically just fonts and headings.



pdf and rtf are totally different things. rtf is nearer html - in fact Apple Mail changed from rtf to html in very early OSX possibly 10.3


Sure but PDF seems to have replaced RTF in some ways. When you used to download software it would often come with an RTF file as documentation, now it would be a PDF.


Yes but not if you need editing which is what WordPad can do.

In this case we have an improved fuction as instructions should not be editable.




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