How To Change Background Color In Wordpad Rtf

And is there whatever way of controlling the color of the background in
Wordpad? Tin I change the colour in Discussion, then see it in Wordpad I wonder?

Aye, but Word saves RTF with a lot of MSO garbage that greatly increases the
filesize. Open an RTF document with Notepad to run across formatting.

Here are some excerpts from my reply to someone in another thread:

[begin excerpts:]

I similar the light footprint and speed of WordPad, and then sometimes I use it
instead of Word.

I oasis't seen another post showing how to insert folio breaks, so
hither's how:
Showtime, the document must be saved in Rich Text Format... ...
Close the document, and open it using Notepad. This will display all
of the RTF tags which WordPad automatically hides.

Scroll down in the document to where you want to identify the folio break,
then enter:
\page
This is the RTF tag for a page break.

Close and save the document from Notepad.

Open up the certificate in WordPad, and using File > Print Preview, notice
that there is now a page suspension where yous inserted \page.

After y'all do that once, and re-open it in WordPad, locate and select (double
click) the blank line where that page break is positioned, and ctrl+C copy
it to clipboard, and so you tin can ctrl+V paste that formatted page break
anywhere in WordPad without the hassle of further editing in NotePad.
...
Oh Wow! On a whim, I just created a 2x2 Table in Word, copied and pasted it
into Wordpad, added some content, and it saved and reloaded correctly. Dorsum
in Word, added yellow background color in one jail cell, green-highlighted a
discussion, copied to WordPad, and yes, that works also! So, although WordPad does
not accept any straight provision to create such features, it is capable of
displaying and saving documents with pasted RTF formatting.

[Y]ou could create a Discussion document with all sorts of special formatting,
and SaveAs FormatPlus.RTF, and and so open information technology in a separate case of
WordPad, and copy and paste from in that location into WordPad.

(Are the wheels in your brain turning faster now?
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I don't always use Toolbar - just keyboard shortcuts. Toolbars waste
vertical infinite.

Change the toolbar then it does non take away from the vertical space:

In WordPad: Click View, Click (checkmark) Format Bar. With mouse, grab a
blank expanse of that bar and movement it downwards over the text area and notice
how the outline rectangle thickens. While still dragging it, position it
over the card bar to the right of the help item, so while yet
dragging information technology, move it upwards slightly onto the title bar until the rectangle
thickens, and position the bottom edge even with the bottom of the menu bar
and DROP it there. (Say: "Oh WOW! Is that absurd or what?"

Merely when I use the Font shortcut (Alt_O, F) Colour options are either
in that location or they aren't. On the last multi-folio document I tried I could
highlight 2 lines and modify colour but not 3. I've noticed this with
previous versions of Wordpad. Should take investigated this earlier.
I just wish I knew what is the determining factor here.

Open up the RTF document in NotePad and examine the paragraph, font and color
coding stuff, and notice the {} nesting of things. Wordpad tin can display RTF
formatted in other applications, but it has express power to manipulate
some RTF coding. What y'all are calling "lines" may be word wrapped screen
lines inside a single paragraph, or separate paragraphs.

HTH. (Hope This Helps.
--Richard