I'm not exactly sure what you are actually trying to accomplish since
Word is for Word Documents and the Notepad is for text files. It's
sort of like saying you want to drive a Corvette but make it behave
like a Ugo. ;-)

I'm guessing you want to use Word but have it default to saving files
as text? If that's the case then go to Tools/Options/Save and change
the default Save format to Plain Text.

If you want Word to default to the Plain Text style on the Formatting
toolbar click in the text box portion of the Styles drop down and type
"Plain Text" without the quotes and press Enter. You could create a
template that uses the Plain Text style by default and use it if you
want to create a new plain text document. For that, create your
template, make sure the Plain Text style is present and go to
Tools/Options/Edit and set the Default Paragraph Style to "Plain
Text".

Perhaps if you could tell us more about what you want to accomplish
exactly with your files then we may be able to offer other
suggestions.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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"Jay Douglas" wrote in message
...
I would like to open Word in text mode. Basically so it saves files
in .txt
mode and copy-paste copies text instead of Word format. I would
like to
create a short cut with command switches or something similar to
open word
in this text format without loosing the default Word format of word.
In
short, I'm trying to create a super notepad. I've searched, but am
unable
to find a solution. Any suggestions and/or links are appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Jay