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Windows Notepad's text formatting is now rolling out, whether you asked for it or not

Microsoft announced "lightweight" formatting for Notepad earlier this month, and it’s now rolling out to Windows Insiders. Thankfully, users can opt out of the new formatting if they prefer the ...
Windows Latest

Windows 11 shows “Edit in Notepad” for file types, including .exe and images, but you can remove it

Windows 11 is showing "Edit in Notepad" in the right-click context menu for all file types in File Explorer, including images ...
ZDNet

Watch out, Windows Notepad users: Here comes AI

Were you thinking Microsoft has added AI to virtually its entire software lineup except for Notepad? Well, here comes an update to prove you wrong. Now rolling out to Windows Insiders in Windows 11 is ...
Ars Technica

Windows Notepad’s midlife renaissance continues with spellcheck and autocorrect

Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a ...
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 ...

5 Free Windows Apps That Outperform the Built-in Ones

You can record, edit, mix, and convert audio with a vast library of free effects and tools. Whether you’re cutting an ...
Digital Trends

Notepad will soon automatically summarize your notes with AI

Image showing Notepad with highlighted text and a dialogue with the results of using the summarize feature to summarize the text. Microsoft Notepad, one of the iconic features of Windows, might seem ...
techtimes

Windows Notepad Get Major Update, Will Now Be Able To Display All Text Files Properly

Windows Notepad has always had a problem displaying line breaks from non-Microsoft operating systems. It is now being updated to be able to handle the end of line characters used in Unix, Linux, and ...
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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 10 Notepad Added to Microsoft Store, Only for Insiders

Last week, Microsoft announced that the popular text editor Notepad would be updateable through the Microsoft Store with Windows 10 20H1, which is a major update for the operating system arriving ...
The Verge

Microsoft is updating the Windows Notepad app for the first time in years

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is giving its Notepad app for Windows a surprising amount of new ...