Textpad Features

[Hookie]

I’ve just started to use TextPad mainly to write content for emails, autoresponsders etc.

Unfortunately, I’m so used to MS Word with all the formatting options possible I don’t know what is possible with TextPad.

For example:

1.Can you change Font styles, Bold, Underlined etc for specific word/s or paragraphs rather than the whole content of a document.

2.Can you change specific words or wording to a ‘color’?

[s_reynisson]

1. No. Feel free to vote on it here in the Enhancement Suggestions forum.
2. Yes, you could use syntax files for that. See TP's help file under "Syntax Definition Files".
HTH

[MudGuard]

Hookie, Word is a word processing program, Textpad is a text editor.

There is a fundamental difference between these two categories of Software:

Word processing programs do not only store the text, but also information about how the text is supposed to look (bold, italic, font, color and so on).

Text editors store just the text - nothing else.

You can use the syntax coloring stuff in Textpad so that your special words are displayed colored in Textpad - but if you open your file in a different program, you will still see just the text, as the information about color is NOT stored with the text.

[mo]

I have reached a point where nearly all my writing is done in TextPad. I keep a letterhead template in Word for when I need to go that way. What I do when I want formatted text is to write it in TextPad with HTML markup. For most of what I want to do I can then just 'view in browser' and print; but if you want to send/use a word document you can open a new Word document, click Insert > File and browse to the file to insert.