Microsoft to take workhorse app WordPad out back after 28 years

[csilvest]

Yah, opening RTFs in Notepadd++ works but is ugly. I can stand the ugly, but I worry about messing up the formatting and breaking the file.

I did find a “user-defined language” file for RTF. Seems to work. Doesn’t show the graphics, but it does let me collapse (or fold?) the massive ASCII-fied chunks that graphics are encoded as.

@gatto

i really like onenote for mixing images and text; but only the old, non-cloud version. and it’s been a pain to keep it from being updated to the newer versions.

I’ve just started looking into Obsidian. Stores files locally as simple text files.

@gatto

you might need a copy of all of its dlls too. assuming that some of them aren’t core system ones. i honestly almost wonder if there’s some ancient win32 api that they’re trying to get rid of, and wordpad is merely the byproduct of the api’s removal.

Hopefully some smarty will make a how-to, in case it’s more complicated than copying the saved version. Here’s what a quick search turned up:

Let’s see what happens when MS takes Wordpad away.