Underlining & Bold-minor problem

Jake'sGran

I did not renew Office after the six months expired as I just type the occasional letter in Notepad. Excel would be useful at times though. Anyway, I was just typing a brief note which included a column of figures and I found I could not use the keyboard shortcuts i.e. CTRL+B and CTRL+U to highlight something or underline it. Why would this be? Is. it just a case of the shortcuts not being available in Notepad? I'm using a Sony laptop and Vista.

-TangleFoot-

Jake'sGran wrote: »

Is. it just a case of the shortcuts not being available in Notepad?

Essentially, yes. Have you considered OpenOffice.org? It's free.

Taffybiker

Notepad is an electronic equivalent of scrap paper. It has none of the features usually associated with word processors. It's nothing to do with your machine or operating system.

libra10

I also use a Sony laptop, which has Wordpad. With this programme, you can use Bold, Underline, etc.

Hope that helps

-TangleFoot-

libra10 wrote: »

With this programme, you can use Bold, Underline, etc.

On the other hand, you can't open or edit Excel documents with it.

Jake'sGran

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

Essentially, yes. Have you considered OpenOffice.org? It's free.

Yes, I will now download Open Office. To be honest, on my last computer I found Open Office was a bit too sophisticated for me.

Jake'sGran

libra10 wrote: »

I also use a Sony laptop, which has Wordpad. With this programme, you can use Bold, Underline, etc.

Hope that helps

Did you get the full Office system with your laptop? Wordpad is not available on this one. It's the VA10.

To Taffybiker: I agree, Notepad is pretty useless. My trouble is that I am always looking for an easy way out. I certainly will not buy Office.

libra10

Initially my PC had Works installed, I already had a copy of Office 2007, which I installed.

-TangleFoot-

Jake'sGran wrote: »

Wordpad is not available on this one.

It should be; it's part of Windows. If you can't find it, it may have been... turned off.

Taffybiker

Jake'sGran wrote: »

Did you get the full Office system with your laptop? Wordpad is not available on this one. It's the VA10.

To Taffybiker: I agree, Notepad is pretty useless. My trouble is that I am always looking for an easy way out. I certainly will not buy Office.

There's nothing wrong with taking the easy option if there is one, and certainly nothing wrong choosing not to purchase unnecessary software.

I would persevere with Open Office.

If you just want a word processor then I found this:
http://www.abisource.com/download/ but I have not used it and cannot vouch for it.

Jake'sGran

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

It should be; it's part of Windows. If you can't find it, it may have been... turned off.

I'll go look see. Maybe it is on here somewhere.

I'm not a Techie as you might have gathered but in the Times at weekend there was a "TECH TIP" in the section called IN GEAR about being able to see your email offline by downloading something called Google Gears or Yahoo Zimbra desktop. I downloaded the Google one but now don't know what to do with it even after reading the instructions. I access AOL email from Firefox but it's not really satisfactory. If anyone is interested I just found in Firefox-Tools, Gears settings. Sorry for going off at a tangent.