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JimL
How do you set the default font size in Wordpad?
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Malke
JimL said:How do you set the default font size in Wordpad?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...font+size+Wordpad&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
If you want a free office suite with a word processor that has more options
than Wordpad (which is just a glorified text editor, not a word processor),
OpenOffice is excellent. http://www.openoffice.org
Malke
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JimL
Thanks. Wordpad is more than I need, except that it always starts with a
small font so I have to always have to change it.
small font so I have to always have to change it.
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Graham
JimL said:How do you set the default font size in Wordpad?
I've been looking for the answer to the same question for a while but no
luck.
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Olórin
Graham said:I've been looking for the answer to the same question for a while but no
luck.
Well I Googled it and found a serviceable workaround straight away. No doubt
in all your searching you'll have found at least one of these sites, all
essentially describing the same steps:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/52364-3/windows_tips_make_desktop_text_easy_to_read.html
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1111350488
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/24573-35-wordpad-default-font-font-size
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/26/Technology/WordPad_workaround_wi.shtml
http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-95/howto-change-default-font-wordpad/165943.html
Or some sort of keyboard macro that will assign to a keyboard shortcut the
"playing back" of the steps necessary for each new document, eg Ctrl+Alt+F6
(say) will invoke Ctrl+A, Alt, O, F, Tab, Tab, down arrow, down arrow,
Enter.
Beyond that, the consensus is that it can't be done per se. But the
workaround of using a template seems completely adequate to me.
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RobertVA
JimL said:Thanks. Wordpad is more than I need, except that it always starts with a
small font so I have to always have to change it.
Start Wordpad
Set the desired font and size
Save the document
Create a shortcut to the document saved above
Click the shortcut created above instead of the normal Wordpad shortcut
Make sure you use the "Save As..." command before changing the file's
content (so you don't overwrite your "template").
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ClueLess
How do you set the default font size in Wordpad?
Hi Jim
CryptEdit, it is a free version of PolyEdit (Payware).
CryptEdit is very small and has all the features you wanted in Wordpad
and more.
http://cryptedit.chat.ru/downloads.htm
You will need a suitable dictionary as well as the converterpack
HTH
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Dicky Mint
There is a good reason for wanting to stick with Wordpad.
I want to standardise on sending plain txt to customers and suppliers and
everyone has Wordpad.
My problem is that even using only 80 characters text per line some lines
wrap round when you print them because the default font size is 10. I don't
want my customers and suppliers to have to mess around with the fonts. They
should be able to simply open the document with wordpad and print it.
It seems to me a relatively simple matter to provide a configuration
settings file if Microsoft chose to do so. Wordpad could check for the
presence of the file and if it isn't there then leave the start-up settings
as they are.
I may end up forced down the pdf route.
Dicky
I want to standardise on sending plain txt to customers and suppliers and
everyone has Wordpad.
My problem is that even using only 80 characters text per line some lines
wrap round when you print them because the default font size is 10. I don't
want my customers and suppliers to have to mess around with the fonts. They
should be able to simply open the document with wordpad and print it.
It seems to me a relatively simple matter to provide a configuration
settings file if Microsoft chose to do so. Wordpad could check for the
presence of the file and if it isn't there then leave the start-up settings
as they are.
I may end up forced down the pdf route.
Dicky
O
Olórin
Dicky Mint said:There is a good reason for wanting to stick with Wordpad.
I want to standardise on sending plain txt to customers and suppliers and
everyone has Wordpad.
My problem is that even using only 80 characters text per line some lines
wrap round when you print them because the default font size is 10. I
don't
want my customers and suppliers to have to mess around with the fonts.
They
should be able to simply open the document with wordpad and print it.
It seems to me a relatively simple matter to provide a configuration
settings file if Microsoft chose to do so. Wordpad could check for the
presence of the file and if it isn't there then leave the start-up
settings
as they are.
I may end up forced down the pdf route.
Dicky
What's wrong with the other suggestions made earlier in this thread?
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Don Phillipson
There is a good reason for wanting to stick with Wordpad.
I want to standardise on sending plain txt to customers and suppliers and
everyone has Wordpad.
My problem is that even using only 80 characters text per line some lines
wrap round when you print them because the default font size is 10. I don't
want my customers and suppliers to have to mess around with the fonts. They
should be able to simply open the document with wordpad and print it.
It seems to me a relatively simple matter to provide a configuration
settings file if Microsoft chose to do so. Wordpad could check for the
presence of the file and if it isn't there then leave the start-up settings
as they are.
It may help to remind ourselves that their is no "Wordpad format:"
the two relevant points are:
1. Default Wordpad format is TXT i.e. native ASCII.
2. Wordpad defaults (e.g. font and point size) will not be altered.
(MS programmers could reprogramme to enable this: but it would
not be profitable for MS to spend anything on the task.)
But several public domain text editors are available as alternatives,
which can be customized as far as we want (e.g. font, line length,)
such as TextPad, emacs etc. These can be configured to write
files as TXT (raw ASCII) which can be read by any appropriate
app (including office word processors e.g. MS Word and WP.)
(I still use Sprint, an emacs variant for MS-DOS of about 1985.)
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Olórin
Don Phillipson said:It may help to remind ourselves that their is no "Wordpad format:"
There's no mention of the phrase "Wordpad format"...
the two relevant points are:
1. Default Wordpad format is TXT i.e. native ASCII.
Well, I've always found it to be Rich Text (RTF). Vanilla XP build, fire up
Wordpad, click on Save or Open and it defaults to .RTF (although in Save you
have the option of changing the default save type).
2. Wordpad defaults (e.g. font and point size) will not be altered.
See previous posts on using a template.
But several public domain text editors are available as alternatives,
<snip>
But like Dicky Mint says, he communicates with customers and suppliers and
"everyone has Wordpad".
If he really only wants plain text, then Notepad might be a better solution.
I wonder if he'll ever post back...
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Dicky Mint
Thanks for your support!
I wasn't clear in my original post that I am not using Wordpad to create
these files. They come from a Unix box. I just thought Wordpad would be a
good standard, readily available piece of software to view and print them
with.
A colleague has pointed out to me that if you open Wordpad and use Page
Setup to make the margins smaller it remembers the settings everytime you
open a .txt file.
I had started trawling through all the different types of report that I want
to send out (such as customer statements, claim forms, remittance advices
etc) and trying to chop them down to fit, but the above seems a good
solution. I am already including brief instructions in all my emails telling
recipients what to open the attachments with and how to change font size, so
I can give them instructions how to set the margins. (Can I assume that
everyone receiving an email is computer literate?)
I haven't had feedback from any recipients yet, but my boss is delighted!
I wasn't clear in my original post that I am not using Wordpad to create
these files. They come from a Unix box. I just thought Wordpad would be a
good standard, readily available piece of software to view and print them
with.
A colleague has pointed out to me that if you open Wordpad and use Page
Setup to make the margins smaller it remembers the settings everytime you
open a .txt file.
I had started trawling through all the different types of report that I want
to send out (such as customer statements, claim forms, remittance advices
etc) and trying to chop them down to fit, but the above seems a good
solution. I am already including brief instructions in all my emails telling
recipients what to open the attachments with and how to change font size, so
I can give them instructions how to set the margins. (Can I assume that
everyone receiving an email is computer literate?)
I haven't had feedback from any recipients yet, but my boss is delighted!