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Wordpad: default font & file type
Name: doghead Date: February 12, 2003 at 15:28:55 Pacific OS: W98se CPU/Ram: P2/450/128/13
Comment:
Times New Roman is the default font for Wordpad, and Word is the default file type. I hope against hope: can either of these be changed? I don't see how, but if anyone knows... Thank you.
Name: seawatch Date: February 12, 2003 at 17:42:02 Pacific
Reply:
I don't think you can change it in WordPad, but in Word you can. Go to Tools, Options, View and all the way at the bottom, change the font size and style.
Larry
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Response Number 2
Name: doghead Date: February 12, 2003 at 17:49:02 Pacific
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Thanks.
I don't have WORD, but I use Wordpad a lot... maybe I can pay a programmer...
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Response Number 3
Name: seawatch Date: February 12, 2003 at 17:55:22 Pacific
Name: Dave357 Date: February 15, 2003 at 16:04:57 Pacific
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A while back, I had asked the same question. Derek provided a link which tells how to change font info, save it as a template, then alter your Wordpad shortcut to open the template instead of just opening Wordpad. Here's the link:
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Summary: G'day Md, the process that Paul mentions is usually only temporary and it will not re-associate the default program but give you an option for that moment. You can add in the Registry a set of shell\o...
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