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Windows 7 comes bundled with a basic text editing program called WordPad. You can consider it as a light version of Microsoft Word and more advanced than other text editors such as NotePad. WordPad enables you to create, edit, view, and print text documents. It helps you type memos, reports, and other simple documents. In this article I will show you where to find WordPad, how to work with the new interface, create & save a new document in WordPad and how to print it.

WordPad Comparison: Windows 7 Version vs. Others

WordPad is included in almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 onwards. The application has always come in very handy as a quick and easy to use text editor for documents.
In older WordPad versions you could see a menus and buttons based interface. The application had two toolbars: the Standard toolbar and the Formatting one, each with its set of buttons for commonly used commands.

The new version of WordPad is even more friendly due to the new and exciting feature called theribbon bar, which was first introduced with Microsoft Office 2007.

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From HowToGeek.com

Are you frustrated by always having to change the font size before you create a document it Word?  Here’s how you can end that frustration and set your favorite default font size for once and for all!

Microsoft changed the default font font to 11 point Calibri in Word 2007 after years of 12 point Times New Roman being the default.  Although it can be easily overlooked, there are ways in Word to change the default settings to anything you want.  Whether you want to change your default to 12 point Calibri or to 48 point Comic Sans…here’s how to change your default font settings in Word 2007 and 2010.

Changing Default Fonts in Word

To change the default font settings, click the small box with an arrow in the right left corner of the Font section of the Home tab in the Ribbon.

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