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Shows or hides the toolbar.


Shows or hides the format bar.


Shows or hides the ruler.


Help is available for each item in this group. Click  [image] at the top of the dialog box, and then click the item for which you want information.


Shows or hides the notification area at the bottom of the WordPad window.


Specifies that a paragraph of text continues on a single line regardless of window size, page size, or margin settings.


Specifies that text wraps to the next line when it reaches the sides of the window. This setting does not affect how the text looks when printed.


Specifies that text wraps to the next line when it reaches the margins of the page.


Specifies that all measurements in this document appear in inches.


Specifies that all measurements in this document appear in points.


Specifies that all measurements in this document appear in centimeters.


Specifies that all measurements in this document appear in picas.


Lists the date and time formats that are available.


Lists the alignments that are available for the selected paragraph.

Left aligns text at the left indent.

Right aligns text at the right indent.

Center centers the text between margins.


Specifies the number of units to indent text from the right margin.


Specifies the number of units to indent text from the left margin.


Specifies the number of units to indent text from the left margin of the first line. You can enter a negative number to create a hanging indent.


Saves the tab stop you defined.


Removes the selected tab stop.


Clears all the listed tab stops.


To add a tab stop, type a number (such as 1.5) in Tab stop position, and then click Set. To remove a tab stop, click the tab stop, and then click Clear.


Specifies the document format you want to use.

Word 6 Document
Text can be opened and edited in Microsoft Word version 6.0 or later without conversion.

Rich Text Document
Text can include character formatting and tabs for use in a variety of word-processing programs.

Text Document
Text has no text formatting.

Unicode Text Document
Text can include any of the world's writing systems, including Roman, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, hiragana, and katakana.


Instructs WordPad to select one word at a time as you drag the mouse over text. To select one character at a time, clear this check box.


Sets the top margin of the page.


Sets the bottom margin of the page.


Sets the left margin of the page. If you set an indentation in the paragraph settings for your document, the indentation is added to the margins you set here.


Sets the right margin of the page. If you set an indentation in the paragraph settings for your document, the indentation is added to the margins you set here.


Sets the default file type WordPad uses when saving documents.


Text, graphics, or other information that you create and can edit in another program, and then insert into a WordPad document.