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I liked WordPad. It was a nice middle ground. Word is so bloated and feature rich that getting started was a faff. WordPad had enough formatting to be useful.

A bit like the Markdown of it's time.



I agree. It has less UI in the way and doesn't take as long to startup, but can still bold and underline. I use it every day for notes at work.

At least it's easily replaced. I assume...




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