WordPad — Windows 98 Simulator

WordPad bridged the gap between Notepad and Word. Windows 98 shipped it with a toolbar, a format bar and a ruler, and it was the free way to write a letter, a CV or a school report and save it as a .doc that Microsoft Word could open.

WordPad from Windows 98 with its toolbar, format bar, ruler and status bar: choose fonts and sizes, bold, italic, underline and colour, alignment, bullets and paragraph indents.

Insert the date and time, find and replace text, and save documents as .doc, Rich Text Format (.rtf) or plain text.