The difference between Windows Notepad and WordPad, and when to use each

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Did you ever wonder about the difference between Notepad and WordPad? In this guide, we'll explain what they are and when to use them.
Although Microsoft Word is the app of choice when it comes to viewing and writing documents, Windows 10 ships with Notepad and WordPad, which while not as powerful as the Office app, but they can be useful in many scenarios.
However, they can only be useful in their own category because even though their names are similar, they both have different purposes. For instance, WordPad is a word processing application that supports formatting and several other rich-text features, while Notepad is a text editor meant only to write plain text.

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