WordPad In Windows 7 Does Word 2007 Documents

If you’re to cheap to download open source freeware like OpenOffice for your word processing needs, then fret not. Windows 7′s WordPad will support Office 2007/2008′s XML-based Word documents, although there is a snafu involved – WordPad has limited support for such documents, and it will warn you beforehand that certain additional content available only in Word will be stripped if you re-save. We say fork out a wee bit more for Office 2007/2008 or get OpenOffice instead to save yourself the accidental heartbreak of overwriting your colleague’s hard work.