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Notepad is getting Wordpad features

By adding formatting, toolbars, and especially mandatory sign-ins for AI functionality, Microsoft is turning the app into a ...
PC World

41 years later, Windows Notepad finally gets spell check

Though it’s intentionally simple and there are some excellent alternatives, Microsoft’s humble Notepad text editor has gained a massive following through sheer ubiquity. Today it finally gets a ...

You can now have tables in Notepad on Windows 11

Microsoft is adding more features to Notepad, but this time, it is not AI slop. The latest additions are for those wishing ...
Odessa American

IT’S GEEK TO ME: Specially configured shortcut solves Notepad window size issue

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I have a question about running Notepad under Windows 11: What registry setting can I tweak to get Notepad to ...
PC World

Over 40 years later, Windows’ Notepad finally has spell check

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away, they ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Notepad to get AI-powered rewriting tool on Windows 11

Microsoft has started testing AI-powered Notepad text rewriting and Paint image generation tools four decades after the two programs were released in the 1980s. These AI "experiences" (as the company ...
Game Rant

Windows Notepad Finally Gets Helpful Feature After 41 Years

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...