Is there a way to use TB's editor as a replacment for WordPad?
I am a very retired programmer (K&R C mostly starting in early 70's. Not C++ or .NET stuff). About 20 years ago I became legally blind - low vision, only very center of one eye, loss of most color perception and need high contrast. Dark mode is usually better. For years I used WordPad to take notes with large font etc., but WordPad is no longer in Windows 11. I rarely save the notes, it is sort of my large print Post-It note - more than phone numbers, messages for wife, etc. For small stuff like that I use my 8x10 white board with dry-erase marker. I switched from Outlook to TB about 2 years ago. Wonderful. But it appears that it insists that I save as DRAFT etc. where I usually don't want to save it (or retrieve it by selecting from not large font list of items in the DRAFTS folder. Life expectancy for sheet if preinted is measurered in hours if I want/need to print it. Is there a way to make use of the TB editor as a standalone? Forget Word with its unfriendly ribbon etc. Ditto for OpenOffice, LibreOffice, NotePad++, etc. They are all to heavy, awkward to launch/start up, etc. I don't need TO:, SUBJECT: etc. I don't need multi-documents at once.
I use TextPad and ZoomText (magnifier/reader with all sorts of enhancements such as full-screen cross hars to help me find the cursor / mouse pointer) for recreational programming etc., too many features etc. to launch or get out of. No, I don't want a copy out on OneDrive - not on my phone, not on my tablet etc. Although speech recognition would be nice, but then again that could be disruptive in home environment. My wife is not a fan of Alexa.
Perhaps find a way to grab WordPad from somewhere? (I doubt that I have media for, say, W7 or earlier. Then there's compatibility issues, ... )
Lastly, I apologize for all of those 'etc.' - this question would have been a lot longer without them.
Thanks, Nick
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I think it may have been in the circa 1960s comedy album "The 2000 Year Old Man" which was a series of skits by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks where the intervier asked the 2000 year old man about the secret of comedy - and after a pause, the response was "Timing". Such is the case for my question: I had done some Google searching shortly after the announcement that WordPad was dropped, and got some of the suggestions I tried and discarded. My timing was off - too soon. The article published in PC Magazine was after my my evaluation of the suggestions. Thank you for bringing it to light - it makes sense to just how to obtain and load the original.
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