In general, Wordpad is used to create formatted documents that can be opened by any word processing program since documents created in Word are often incompatible with other programs. Wordpad does not do this since it strives to retain as much formatting as possible. When you copy a portion of text from another formatted document like a web page and paste it into Notepad, it immediately strips all the formatting and only the unformatted text appears. Notepad has a little feature that stems from its simplicity. Since Notepad expects that the file it opens is only in plain text, all the characters that RTF files use to format documents would also come out creating a jumbled output. When Wordpad opens an RTF file it recognizes all these keywords and takes them out of the final output. All these characters are saved in plain text in the RTF format. RTF is the preferred format for Wordpad since it uses keywords that can be embedded into the document itself in order to create a little bit of formatting. As such, Notepad is used with text files only. You do not have options for the paragraph like alignment or even add bulleted lists. It is only capable of the most minimal formatting like fonts and sizes. Notepad, on the other hand, is simply a text editor and is the most lightweight of all. It is best for handling files of the RTF (Rich Text Format) extension and text files.

Wordpad is a lightweight version of Word that allows a reduced amount of formatting. There are a few other options when it comes to word-processing aside from Word which is the most feature packed application, The two other options are Wordpad and Notepad each with their own pros and cons.

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