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What Is A Basic Difference Between A Notepad And Microsoft Word?

how do u differenciate these two ?

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    Notepad is just a very simple text editor while microsoft word is a very powerful, full-fledged word processor.

    Hint: If you need an equally powerful word processor that can read and write microsoft word documents but is free, go to www.openoffice.org.
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    Scrut  

    answered 3 years ago

      These both are actually the text editors but there are so many differences in their working and application designs.The basic difference is that the notepad is a SDI (single document interface) application while the Microsoft word is MDI (multiple document interfaces) application.

      In the case of single document interface applications, only one document can be opened at a time during the execution. Thus, single document interface applications have a narrow focus. The Microsoft paint is another example of this type of applications. In notepad you can edit only one document (text file) at a time. When you want to edit more than one document at a time, you have to run the multiple instances of notepad program that is separate multiple notepad windows executing simultaneously.

      The Microsoft word is more sophisticated ands more complicated than notepad program. Word gives a more advanced graphical user interface and text formatting features that are not available in notepad.Besides these above mentioned features, word also allows the user to edit more than one document through the same instance of application program. These documents may be a text file, a bitmap file, a compressed file etc. each document in the MDI application is called a child window and application main window is known as parent window.  A child window works under the control of parent window and different child windows may have different functionalities.
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      Raaga  

      answered 3 years ago

        You should think of Notepad as just that - a tablet for scribbling notes to yourself.  Word includes all the formatting features that you'd want for letters, resumes, papers for school.  It's more difficult to learn, but much more rewarding.
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        Merrob54  

        answered 3 years ago

        Note pad has a text of 20 columns of text, i  have converted that text into ms word ,but i want to remove some

        unwanted columns middle of that ms word document
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        Guest  

        answered 8 months ago

        I dont know the difference...thats what im looking for
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        Guest  

        answered 8 months ago

          Notepad is a SDI(Single document Interface ) i.e if one document is open then another can not be open without close first one.Whereas MS-Word is a MDI(Mutiple Document Interface )i.e multiple document can be open at the same point of time.
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          Guest  

          answered 3 months ago

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