08-17-2015, 06:13 PM
@Colin23erk,
I understand. If performance becomes an issue with Wordpad, the native word processor (LibreOffice Writer) can be customized to suite your needs. I think you'll find it feature rich enough for the power users, but lightweight enough for you. And we're here to help with and shorten any learning curves you encounter.
For example, if you do the following, rich text format (rtf) will become the default format for all documents you create in LibreOffice Writer.
1) Go to Menu->Office->New Document. LibreOffice Writer will open.
2) Click on Tools, and then Options.
3) In the window that opens, you'll see an arrow next to Load/Save. Click on that, and then select General.
4) In the section "Default File Format and ODF Settings," select Text document for your Document type and Rich Text for the Always save as option.
5) Then click OK.
From then on, by default, each document you create using LibreOffice Writer will automatically be saved in rich text format.
If there are still too many bells and whistles with LibreOffice Writer, do consider Abiword. A screenshot can be seen here: http://www.abiword.org/screenshots/AbiWo...-Gnome.png. It is lightweight and scaled down, and should out-perform Microsoft Wordpad using Wine.
I understand. If performance becomes an issue with Wordpad, the native word processor (LibreOffice Writer) can be customized to suite your needs. I think you'll find it feature rich enough for the power users, but lightweight enough for you. And we're here to help with and shorten any learning curves you encounter.
For example, if you do the following, rich text format (rtf) will become the default format for all documents you create in LibreOffice Writer.
1) Go to Menu->Office->New Document. LibreOffice Writer will open.
2) Click on Tools, and then Options.
3) In the window that opens, you'll see an arrow next to Load/Save. Click on that, and then select General.
4) In the section "Default File Format and ODF Settings," select Text document for your Document type and Rich Text for the Always save as option.
5) Then click OK.
From then on, by default, each document you create using LibreOffice Writer will automatically be saved in rich text format.
If there are still too many bells and whistles with LibreOffice Writer, do consider Abiword. A screenshot can be seen here: http://www.abiword.org/screenshots/AbiWo...-Gnome.png. It is lightweight and scaled down, and should out-perform Microsoft Wordpad using Wine.
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