WordPad
On Windows 8, WordPad looks like a stripped-down version of Microsoft Word 2010, complete with a ribbon bar. It’s a decent, if very basic word processor that supports any variety of fonts, text coloring, and background shading as well as left, right, and hanging paragraph indents, paragraph alignment, bulleted and numbered lists, image embedding, and generic OLE object embedding.
It’s actually a good introduction to ribbon bar applications, because in this rather singular case, it’s simple, pretty intuitive, and well organized. About the only flaws are a couple of obscure symbols in the ribbon’s Paragraph section. Just hover the mouse over them to see what they do. The program’s options are set in the View menu, just as they are with ...
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