For example, you can dictate text to fill out online forms; or you can dictate text to a word-processing program, such as WordPad, to type a letter. When you speak into the microphone, Windows Speech Recognition converts your spoken words into text that appears on your screen.

To work around this problem, copy and paste the Unicode text document into a new WordPad document, and then save it as a text document. To do so, follow these steps:

In many of these apps, shortcuts are also shown in a tooltip if you hold the mouse pointer over a button. In others, pressing the Alt or F10 shows available keyboard shortcuts. If a letter is underlined in a menu, press the Alt key and the underlined key together instead of choosing that menu item.

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Or, depending on the program you are using (such as WordPad), you can even copy characters by dragging them from Character Map directly into an open document. You can use Character Map to search for characters by viewing the Unicode character maps that are associated with each font.

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If you couldn’t print from WordPad, the printing problem is not specific to your Microsoft 365 app. You can try fixing the problem by following steps in Fix printer connection and printing problems in Windows.

Microsoft has released an update to address a vulnerability in the OleConvertOLESTREAMToIStorage and OleConvertOLESTREAMToIStorageEx functions when used in WordPad as described in CVE-2023-36563. Please note that other applications that use these functions might still be at risk.

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft WordPad parses specially crafted files. To learn more about this vulnerability, see CVE-2017-8588.

Fix an issue in which the desktop app WordPad crashes in Windows Server 2008 SP2.