XDA Developers on MSN

Reasons to replace Notepad in Windows

Microsoft has included Notepad with Windows for well over 40 years. If you are a coder or want to jot down notes, it’s a ...
How-To Geek on MSN

6 Notepad++ features you should be using

Sessions in Notepad++ grab the complete state of your workspace. A session file saves the full paths of all open documents, ...
GIGAZINE

Windows Notepad finally gets spell check and autocorrect features

Notepad, which has been included with Microsoft's MS-DOS and Windows for over 40 years, will be getting spell checking and autocorrect features in Windows 11. https ...
Pocket-lint

40 years later, Microsoft Notepad features spellcheck.

Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...
GIGAZINE

Microsoft adds AI features to Paint and Notepad, allowing you to add objects to the canvas, erase objects, rephrase text, adjust tone, and change the length of content

On November 7, 2024, Microsoft announced new features that use generative AI for the standard Windows apps Paint and Notepad. Select an area in your image using the Rectangle or Freeform Selection ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch

Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...
Indiatimes

Notepad app on Windows is finally getting this basic yet important feature

The Notepad app in Windows 11 has received an update with design changes, tabbed browsing, and a character count feature. The character count is displayed at the bottom left side of the app, similar ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 Notepad gets a built-in character counter, finally

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter. Until now, users who needed a quick way to count characters in ...
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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Notepad and Paint Become Optional Features in Windows 10

In future versions of Windows 10, Microsoft is making it so you can now completely uninstall the venerable Notepad, Paint, and WordPad programs from the operating system. The popular Notepad and Paint ...
ZDNet

New Windows 10 19H1 test build adds more Notepad features, other tweaks

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 19H1 test build adds more new features to Notepad. It also includes other sign-in, File Explorer, touch keyboard and other updates. Microsoft released the latest Fast ...