Suggestions very much appreciated, grrrr!

[chanter1944]

Anybody got a suggestion on how to roll back changes to a wordpad document you accidentally deleted a chunk of? I thought not saving changes would sort things, but evidently that isn't the case. I am not. happy. :(

No, I don't have a damnable backup. That would make too much sense.

Edited to add: I've been able to retrieve the most important bits of what I lost, thanks to having sent them to friends. I'm in the process of recreating the rest.

I'm also on the hunt for a word processor application that has a better backup feature than wordpad, doesn't stink for accessibility (looking at you, Libre Office), and doesn't have Google tentacles in it.

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[chanter1944]

Text is much more of a concern than, say, fancy formatting, so a text editor... is probably fine? I'm so clueless on the differences here, it's embarrassing.

[kengr]

Ok, a text editor doesn't do fonts, styling (underlines, italics, bold, etc). It just lets you write strings of words. Most will spell check. And usually word wrap.

No justification or centering either.

But it will have search and replace (often better than word processors for some sorts of things)

My current go-to is TextPad. One nice feature is that you not only can have multiple files open at the same time, but there's an option on the search and replace that will let you apply it not just to all of the current file, but all of the currently *open* files. This is great when you have (say) a bunch of chapters open and want to change a name in all of them.

https://www.textpad.com/

[chanter1944]

Ooooooh. Thank you! This sounds very useful for most of what I do. I can always use something else for the rare instances that I need to play with formatting, text colors, etc. I do have one story that involves multicolored ink (fridge and whiteboard notes), but that's one story over decades. :P

[kengr]

If it's for online, many things are *simple* html codes (or related code that just require changing angle brackets to square brackets or the like)

When I was writig on my Dana Wireless, I'd transfer the files to the PC (which put them in RTF format). I'd use a word processor to change them to HTML (though I've also got an RTF to HTML convertor, the word processor usually works better).

Then I'd edit out all the excess junk that the conversion had put in the HTML files.

That reduced the file size by 50%!!

Then I could upload the file to the sites (like LJ, DW and Big Closet) that wanted HTML and a few quick search and replaces would change the tags for other sites.

Once I got the hang of it, it was quite fast.