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  1. DANNY HURLEY
    Danny Hurley Win User

    I wrote a letter on wordpad, lost it before I could save it, is there a way to find it.


    I typed a letter on Word Pad then I lost it before I saved it, is there a way I can find it?

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    Danny Hurley, Aug 22, 2023
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  2. SHAWN 'CMDR' KEENE [MVP]
    Shawn 'Cmdr' Keene [MVP] Win User

    how can I type a letter

    There's many ways to accomplish this, but one easy way to type a letter in Windows 10 by opening the built-in "WordPad" program.

    • Click the Start button
    • Type "wordpad" to find the WordPad program (it will search as you are typing)
    • Open the program and write your letter
    • Click File menu at the top to Save or Print your letter
     
    Shawn 'Cmdr' Keene [MVP], Aug 22, 2023
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  3. LX07
    lx07 Win User
    Can't Save a Letter Typed in Wordpad and Print It?

    That is the salient point - you should be able to.

    WordPad is free, included in all versions of Windows and works perfectly fine for simple documents. If you are happy with it you may as well use it.

    It sounds like you have a trial of Word included which has grabbed the extension .rtf that WordPad uses by default and associated it with the paid Microsoft Word. This is to "encourage" you to pay for their subscription.

    If you don't want to and are happy using WordPad what you can do is this:

    Make a document (just a couple of words will do) in WordPad and save it. By default it uses the file extension .rtf You can leave that extension type - it is fine.


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    Right-click on the document you saved and select "Open with" like this


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    Then click on "More apps"


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    Then scroll down, pick WordPad, tick the box "Always use this app to open .rtf files" and click "OK"


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    After doing that all .rtf documents should automatically open in WordPad every time for you to print/edit or whatever.
     
    lx07, Aug 22, 2023
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  4. SLARTYBART
    Slartybart Win User

    I wrote a letter on wordpad, lost it before I could save it, is there a way to find it.

    Lost data wordpad, any way to recover it?


    Wait-a-minit ... if you saved as then the file is just a different name. Once you save as subsequent saves go to that file, not the original.

    If you open the blue File menu in Wordpad, are there any files in the Recent pane (right)


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    Slartybart, Aug 22, 2023
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