Free Program for creating and reading plain text documents

[BillW]

Please tell me about any free programs that are used to write plain text documents. Are there advantages and disadvantages?

Thanks,
BillW

[HansV]

For simple documents, I use Notepad - it comes with Windows and is very easy to use.

If I want to create or edit stuff like source code, I use Notepad++. It is extremely powerful and still easy to use. And it's

[stuck]

Wot Hans said ^^^



Ken

[John Gray]

Wot Stuck said ^^^ Hans said ^^^

[BillW]

Thanks Hans and Stuck and John for reminding me about Notepad! Now I remember using it in the distant past!

BillW

[Ted Myers]

Wordpad is more user friendly.
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[HansV]

Wordpad can indeed create and edit plain text files, as can Microsoft Word.
But the .docx format is not plain text, though.