- Create a new document and edit it with others at the same time — from your computer, phone or tablet. Free with a Google account.
- In our modern world, documents do not only contain texts but even objects like graphic images, shapes, clip arts, photos and other stuff. In less robust applications such as WordPad, there’s a limited set of graphic element that you can insert but in the more advanced ones such as Microsoft Word, you can insert many sorts of elements like tables, shapes, lines, charts and many others.
As you may remember, the good old Paint app was destined to become an optional feature in Windows 10. The latest Insider Preview build 18963 indicates that WordPad shares the same fate as Paint.
WordPad is the basic word processor that has been included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 95 on. It is more advanced than Microsoft Notepad, and simpler than Microsoft Word and Microsoft Works (last updated in 2007).
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The optional features page in Build 18963 now lists both Paint and Wordpad apps. This means that both apps can be uninstalled, and they can also be eventually excluded from the default app set of Windows 10.
If you are a Windows Insider running build 18963, you can check out the change as follows.
- Open Settings.
- Navigate to Apps > Apps & features.
- Click on the Optional features link on the right.
- On the next page, click on the button Add a feature.
- Finally, on the next page you will see the classic Paint and Wordpad apps in the list.
Wordpad is a very simple text editor, more powerful than Notepad, but still less feature rich than Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer. It is good for creating a simple text document without complicated formatting.
As you may remember, starting with build 17063, the classic Microsoft Paint app in Windows 10 had a 'Product Alert' button. Clicking on the button opened a dialog that suggests that the app will be occasionally replaced with Paint 3D, and would be moved to the Store. Many people were not happy with this move from Microsoft. They were not ready to exchange the good old mspaint.exe with a completely different Store app because the old Paint has its own advantages and Paint 3D does not surpass it in every way. Classic Paint always loaded much faster, and had a more usable and friendlier user interface with superior mouse and keyboard usability.
Starting in Windows 10 Insider Preview build 18334 Microsoft has silently removed the Product Alert notice. See the screenshot from that build:
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The button is missing in the toolbar.
As of now, MSPaint is still included in 1903. Also, it was updated with a set of accessibility features.
So, the change introduced in build 18963 hints that Microsoft will eventually remove the Paint and WordPad apps from the OS by making them optional.
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