It appears that last night I clicked on something I should not have, and messed up WordPad. The text alignment options (align left, align right, center text) on the toolbar are now grayed-out. Other than uninstalling/reinstalling WordPad, any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks for any tips!

Have a look at the 'Word wrap' options:

Thanks so much for this! Problem solved. Would of got back to you a lot sooner, but the search feature here is not good, and it was not listed in my posts, so took some digging.