What is MS-WordPad How To Use WordPad

What is MS-WordPad Full Information

WordPad is a text-editor, which helps in creating documents with more features than Notepad but few less features than MS Word. WordPad is included in every version of Windows. Many types of formatting can be done in WordPad document.

The window of WordPad looks something like this. The WordPad window you are seeing above appears in the ‘Windows 7’ Operating System, so you may see a different WordPad window when you open WordPad on your computer. This does not make much difference, yes there may be difference in graphics and some features.

Let’s also open WordPad on your computer and match how your window is similar to the WordPad window shown in this tutorial. If you do not know how to open WordPad, then you can learn to open it from the tutorial ‘How to open WordPad’. In this tutorial, many different ways to open WordPad have been described.

Now you have a window of WordPad in front of you. You must have noticed that this window is divided into several parts. Let us know these different parts of WordPad’s window in sequence.

1- WordPad Button

WordPad Button is a major part of WordPad. This button is in the Menu / Tab Bar. In this button, many options are given for the file created in WordPad. In this, you are given commands to save, open, print, etc. to the WordPad document. Work is done on WordPad Documents by these commands.

2- Quick Access Toolbar In WordPad

The Quick Access Toolbar is a special part of WordPad. This toolbar is in the title bar. We use it as a shortcut. Most of the useful commands are added to this toolbar and they are added to it. With the help of Quick Access Toolbar, work in WordPad can be done at a little speed.

3- Title Bar In WordPad

The title bar is the top part of the WordPad window. On this bar the name of the file created in WordPad is shown. The name of the file is not shown until the file is saved and “Document” is written there. As soon as we save the file with any name, then the file name is shown in place of “Document”. There are three buttons in the right corner of the title bar. In these three buttons, the first button is “Minimize”, clicking on which the icon of Open Program comes in the Task Bar. This means that this program has not been closed yet.
Work is still being done on this. The second button is “Maximize or Restore down”. This button works to increase or decrease the width of the window. And the third button is “Close Button”. Which works to close the program.

4- Ribbon In WordPad

The Ribbon is another part of the WordPad window. It is below the Title Bar. The red part of the WordPad window shown in this lesson is the Ribbon. In this part, the options of WordPad Tabs (which are in the options menu bar) are shown.

5- Ruler bar In WordPad

The Ruler Bar is located just above the text area in the WordPad window. This tells us about the Page Margin. As much page margin is done before or after creating the WordPad document. To show that much margin, the Ruler is placed on both the sides i.e. on the right and left side in the Ruler Bar. Then the text that is written does not go out of them.

6- Status bar In WordPad

The Status bar is located just below the text area in the WordPad window. In this bar there is a tool called “Zoom Level”, with the help of which the page can be zoomed in and zoomed out. With the help of Zoom in, you can enlarge the WordPad window. And with the help of Zoom out, the WordPad window can be minimized back.

7- Text Area In WordPad

The Text Area is the most important part of WordPad. And this is the largest and middle part of the WordPad window. The document text is written in this area.

What have you learned ?

In this tutorial you learned what is Microsoft WordPad. You also got acquainted with the WordPad window. We hope that this tutorial will prove useful for you.

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