Wine Worpad

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Hi everyone
Thanks for the inputs especially


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Based on Colin's post, it didn't seem to me like he was looking for a text editor.  Furthermore, he's a forum regular, so one could presume that he's familiar with text editor options.  I could be wrong, but my guess is he either likes the challenge of getting Microsoft Wordpad to work in Linux using Wine, or he's looking for a scaled down version of a word processor like Microsoft Wordpad.

@Colin23erk,
I have the answer!  Check this out.


I got this by doing the following:  Menu->Wine->Browse C:drive.  I opened the windows folder.  Then the system32 folder.  I searched for wordpad.exe.  I clicked on it.  And then it was done.

To make it even sweeter, I created a shortcut as a test.  Just right click on the wordpad.exe file and choose Send To->Desktop (Create Link). 

Piece of cake.

I followed this and it worked great.


I found that it was showing in Menu > Others > Wordpad  but for some reason it will not launch from there ?


You guessed correctly that I wanted a scaled down word processor.
In Windows I used "Jarte" which I found suited my needs . It is supposed to working Linux using Wine but I cannot input any text. That is why I tried to see if Wordpad worked as Jarte was built on Wordpad .

At my age (71) I like to keep things as simple as I can that suffice for my needs . Having lots of bells and whistles that need a large learning curve is a waste of effort if they are never to be used . I have found that RTF files serve  me well and can be read with most programs . I prefer to use a program that RTF is its native format so I do not need to export / etc to get RTF files

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I can respect your want to use a fileformat. But not sure if wine would ever fit me. But I know for a fact abiword handles rtf format. Both opening and saving. Consider using that over stuff in wine, while it may run.. its almost always far from ideal.