How to set Wordpad's default plain-text font ?

Question

I much prefer Wordpad to Notepad in Windows 7 for quickly checking out source files, namely because Notepad doesn't display most correctly if the file was written in Unix.

However it saddens me that I can't chose the plain-text mode's default font.

Is there a way to change it? I'm guessing registry here, if at all.

Answer 1

Open a new document, set the default font and size, and save the file as "wordpad.wri". Close wordpad. Right click on the saved file and select Properties. On the general tab check read-only, apply your changes and click OK.

Whenever you want to launch wordpad, do so by double clicking the saved wordpad.wri.

[src: Tom Porterfield ]