Must confess that I haven't been following this thread too closely but has
anyone suggested 'WORDPAD' that comes bundled with WIN95 and WIN98?

It's also in XP.

Here's a description I just clipped from the 'About' menu item from Wordpad
which - along with Notepad - is found in XP's Start/All Programs/Accessories
menu.

WordPad overview

With WordPad, you can create and edit simple text documents or documents
with complex formatting and graphics. You can link or embed information from
other documents into a WordPad document.

You can save your WordPad file as a text file, rich text file, text file for
MS-DOS, or Unicode. These formats provide greater flexibility when working
with other programs. Documents that use multiple languages should be saved
as rich text files.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I just tried it again now to make sure it does so and was able to apply
boldface, underline and italics.

Larry Stewart
Ottawa, Canada
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> Subject: [PCSOFT] Boldly go with notepad
>
> Hi all.
>
> I'm looking for a simple notepad clone to run in W98SE that has BOLD,
ITALIC
> and UNDERLINE facilities.
>
> I have Word, of course, but it's far too clever for my current needs. And
I
> suppose Wordpad's an option, but that's a bit over-educated, too.
>
> I've been using EditPad Lite for several years now, just renaming it
> 'Notepad.exe' and a copy as '_notepad.exe' (which puts it at the head of
the
> 'Open With' list, so you don't have to scroll down the list to find it),
but
> though this little app is pretty effective, and has all kinds of features,
> it doesn't have the ones I want.
>
> I think I've tried almost every text editor available but perhaps I've
> missed one.  Even just BOLD and UNDERLINE would do.  Does anyone know of
> such an animal?
>
> TIA
>
> Ian Porter

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