Wordpad vs Word

[janrif]

Except for some fancy options -- many of which aren't used IMO -- I'm wondering if it wouldn't be faster/more efficient to use Wordpad as the external doc editor.

Maybe I'm being simplistic but loading Word is so big, it's a PITA.

As an aside, I also think that URp's dictionary forces an extra step, i.e. user has to click suggestions to get a list of words rather than seeing them in the first layer of the dialog.

OK.... now you can jump on me.

[zargron]

Originally posted by janrif
Except for some fancy options -- many of which aren't used IMO -- I'm wondering if it wouldn't be faster/more efficient to use Wordpad as the external doc editor.

Have you tried going to Folder Options in "Control Panel" and setting file type .rtf to Open with Wordpad?

As an aside, I also think that URp's dictionary forces an extra step, i.e. user has to click suggestions to get a list of words rather than seeing them in the first layer of the dialog.

What?

OK.... now you can jump on me.

Cool Jan - shall I imagine a bouncy body or rigid body?

PS: are you really still using "w2k-sp4"

[janrif]

Originally posted by zargron
[B]Have you tried going to Folder Options in "Control Panel" and setting file type .rtf to Open with Wordpad?

Yes.

As for dictionary, forget it. Just ignore this. Drugs wore off before I wrote that.

[zargron]

Zargron wrote:
Have you tried going to "Folder Options" in "Control Panel" and setting file type .rtf to "Open with Wordpad"?
Janrif wrote:
Yes.

It didn't work?

Janrif wrote:
Drugs wore off before I wrote that.

You mean:
I wrote that before the drugs wore off.

[janrif]

Originally posted by zargron
It didn't work?

It works fine. I guess I don't see the need to open a doc file in Word when I can open it faster in a program like Wordpad.

That is, unless user has work issues, i.e. distribution of word documents with corrections, etc. in which case user could probably link to it & "open with" Word.

OTOH, maybe I'm missing something.

[zargron]

Originally posted by janrif
It works fine. I guess I don't see the need to open a doc file in Word when I can open it faster in a program like Wordpad.

That is, unless user has work issues, i.e. distribution of word documents with corrections, etc. in which case user could probably link to it & "open with" Word.

OTOH, maybe I'm missing something.

Good to hear you got the external edit with Wordpad going.

To be honest janrif I don't pause for too long to ponder the seemingly unnecessary complexity of modern word processors. My work & study history makes me pretty strong with ye old WP knowledge. It's quite easy for me to soak up such features as templates, drawing tools, master documents, spell checking, fields like TOC, hyperlinks, bullets, numbering, tables, merging... and I wouldn't like to do without them.