WordPad is a text-editing program that allows you to create and edit text files, insert pictures and add links to other files. WordPad can open and save text files, rich text files, Word documents (.docx), OpenDocument text file (.odt), and Word documents (.txt). Files in other formats may not open as plain text files. WordPad doesn't support certain features like annotations, headers, footers and footers. WordPad will not allow you to open files with these features. You can save the file with a new name if you need to make changes to such a file. This allows you to make changes to a copy of the file, but keeps the original content intact. To see more information about each button, press and hold it (or, if you're using the mouse, point at the button).