{"id":9745,"date":"2017-07-18T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2017-07-18T07:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:12:53","slug":"how-to-open-wordpad-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-open-wordpad-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open WordPad in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPad is a basic text editor that is included with almost all versions of Windows. This tool enables you to create, edit, view, and print text documents. You can use it to open .docx file when you don&#8217;t have Office Word on your computer. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you the simple ways to open WordPad in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wordpad.png\" alt=\"wordpad\" width=\"584\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9747\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips:<\/strong> <i>WordPad.exe is located in the directory: C:\\Program Files\\Windows NT\\Accessories. If you open write.exe that resides in C:\\Windows\\System32, it ends up executing WordPad.exe.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Open WordPad Using Cortana Search<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Type <strong>WordPad<\/strong> in Cortana Search box on the taskbar, and then click WordPad from the search result.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/open-wordpad-via-cortana.png\" alt=\"open-wordpad-via-cortana\" width=\"393\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9748\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Open WordPad from Start Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click the <strong>Start<\/strong> button. When the Start Menu opens, scroll down to the <strong>Windows Accessories<\/strong> folder and expand it. There you&#8217;ll find the WordPad app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/open-wordpad-from-start-menu.jpg\" alt=\"open-wordpad-from-start-menu\" width=\"500\" height=\"474\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9749\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 3: Open WordPad via Run<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press the Windows key + R to open the Run box. Type either <strong>wordpad<\/strong> or <strong>write<\/strong> and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/open-wordpad-via-run.png\" alt=\"open-wordpad-via-run\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 4: Open WordPad from Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After opening the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-command-prompt-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Command Prompt<\/a>, type <strong>write<\/strong> and press Enter. It will launch WordPad immediately.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/open-wordpad-from-command-prompt.png\" alt=\"open-wordpad-from-command-prompt\" width=\"548\" height=\"137\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9751\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPad is a basic text editor that is included with almost all versions of Windows. This tool enables you to create, edit, view, and print text documents. You can use it to open .docx file when you don&#8217;t have Office Word on your computer. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you the simple ways to open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1894],"tags":[3468],"class_list":["post-9745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-open-wordpad-in-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9754,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions\/9754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}