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I moved the Page to Microsoft Write, which is the proper name of the product. Windows Write was a word processor for the Macintosh, that predated the release of Microsoft Windows RevDan (talk) 10:50, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Write was a problem

With Write in Windows 3.1, you could open ANY file by using the "No Conversion" option and edit it. This resulted in people editing binaries with it. One could create a different version of Notepad, for instance, that would default to displaying .bat files instead of .txt files in the "File Open" dialog. I had a shareware program that had a poorly written dialog (the same keystroke for two different options) and I successfully edited the binary (.exe) to make the dialog work better. I think that this was unacceptable to Microsoft. Quite apart from that sort of low-level hacking, Write was a great tool. Back in the days of Usenet, there was a fellow who had created an important document with MS Word but it had become corrupted. He could retype it but he had lost a crucial bitmap that was embedded in the Word file. I suggested he try to open the Word file with Write (No Conversion) and he found his bitmap and was able to copy it and paste it into a new Word document. Rescued! These were good reasons to replace Write with the innocuous Wordpad, which was essentially MS Word without any features. 173.174.85.204 (talk) 01:40, 20 January 2017 (UTC)Eric[reply]

Is WordPad a newer version of Windows Write?

It's executable is write.exe, so perhaps it is the newer version of Write.exe, but with a newer name and icon. The source code is available in the Windows 1.0 leaked source as well as the Windows 2000 and NT leaked source, as proof. Duplicate discussion here: [1] Family Guy Guy (talk) 16:02, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Paragraph justification

Re: "Unlike versions of WordPad before Windows 7, Write could justify a paragraph." I don't doubt that claim, but it would be appropriate to provide citations. I don't know if it makes sense to add the following citation yet, before someone provides the citation for the other components of the statement (because if there's a ^[#] at the end, no one will bother searching for the other two assertions, explicit and implied -- respectively, that 3.1x Write previously did it and that Vista WordPad subsequently did it), but page 264 of Windows XP in 10 Simple Steps or Less by Bill Hatfield and Bradley L. Jones does at least confirm (in a sidebar note) that as of Windows XP, WordPad did not justify text. —Undomelin (talk) 21:39, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Powerpoint

Informatie over power point kort en bondig 2803:A200:3CA:524:6DD5:58FA:5F68:D0AA (talk) 22:04, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

File format conversion

How to convert 30 years old .WRI files to .odt (or other format of today) preserving formatting information? These .WRI files are not RTF. About half of each file consists of rather readable ASCII text, but the rest of each file consists of "binary" formatting ... seemingly not .DOC either. The first 14 bytes of the .WRI files have always (at least typically) the following binary values:

31 be 00 00 00 ab 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 130.238.112.129 (talk) 22:59, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]