Wordpad / Notepad Conundrum

[Coppit]

Windows 10 comes with Notepad only. I have got Wordpad onto the taskbar but it's not in the list of Open with. Only Notepad is there and it's difficult to use as the lines don't wrap.

The only way I can get to work in Wordpad is to copy the text from Notepad and Paste into Wordpad, then vice versa - a nuisance. Is it possible to get Wordpad listed in the Open with box?

[Buenchico]

Googling suggests that adding a program to the Windows 10 'open with' menu is tricky, involving complex registry changes.

However I can't see why you can't open simply Wordpad (from your taskbar) and then press Ctrl-O to open the file that you want to view in it. Am I missing something?

[Buenchico]

^^^ open simply ???

I seem to be typing things in reverse order today!

[Old_Geezer]

Never saw much use for Wordpad. Notepad is an adequate text viewer/editor for most things. Anything more use a word processor or a programmer's text editor with bells & whistles.

Notepad will wrap lines on the screen if you set it. It's just that it doesn't add control characters when saving. It saves the text.

Going from a flawed memory, isn't there a subdirectory somewhere that holds the shortcuts for programs that appear in the 'open with' ? I may be wrong but I think adding a Wordpad shortcut there may add it to the right click menu.

[Buenchico]

>>> Never saw much use for Wordpad

That makes two of us! I've been using Windows computers for over twenty years and I can probably count the number of times I've used Wordpad on the fingers of one hand. With excellent word processor programs (as good as, or better than, Microsoft Word) available for free (e.g. OpenOffice Writer) there would seem to be little point in using clunky old Wordpad at all.

[Bertrum]

If you must
Right click the txt file and select “Open With” Select “Choose another app”
Click on “More apps” scroll to the bottom and tick “always use this app” then click “Look for another app”
Navigate to
C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories
and select “Wordpad”

[Coppit]

Thanks for all responses.
Old Geezer, you say Notepad *will *wrap. Please tell me how as that's the problem - lines can be almost a yard long.

I raised this problem before, Buenchico but was unable to get OpenOffice to unwrap.

[Lie-in King]

In a Notepad document, click "Format" & tick "Word Wrap"

[Coppit]

Bless you Lie-in King. That's all it needed!

[Lie-in King]

You're welcome, Coppit :-)