Tag Archives: wordpad  #ProgressIS: Using a Text Editor As a
Word Processor  Funny how they say history tends to repeat
itself. As always the old becomes new and technology no matter
how much it moves forward doesn’t always seem to get away from
this idiom. In thousands of offices all around the world there
are billions of widget makers struggling every day to figure out
simple and easy as ways to communicate via the written word.
Unfortunately, most of them assume the only answer is the modern
word processor.  Now there was a time when the word processor
meant a 20 pound device with the really small screen and a not
quite detachable keyboard. Like a typewriter minus the White
Out. As computers came into play one the first issues ever
tackled was a good word processing solution that could replace
the the electronic typewriter and single tasking electronic word
processors of the day.  This was a fine and dandy solution up
until there was some bifurcation of formats between WordPerfect,
which was the giant of w