Make backup copies of notepad.exe in the following directories (Not necessary but good in case you want to roll back to the original notepad): C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe C:\Windows\notepad.exe ...

Text formatting and useless AI These days, however, Notepad keeps getting bombarded with new features I feel aren't really necessary for its purpose. First, we got spellchecking capabilities, and ...

This formatting addition to Notepad comes just a week after Microsoft started testing a new feature in the app that can generate text for you using AI. The new Write feature in Notepad can be used ...

For a long time, Notepad went without significant changes, prompting some Windows users to opt for Notepad2 or Notepad++. That began to change in 2018, when Microsoft added support for Mac and Unix.

For years, Notepad has existed as a bare-bones text editor. No longer. Microsoft keeps adding to it, including a new update that includes capabilities that you might have expected in another ...

With Notepad, however, neither of these features are really necessary. You can bypass any guesswork as to how pasted text will look by stripping its formatting and making it adapt to the styles ...

On Windows 11, Notepad includes a slew of features you probably don't know, including spell check and autocorrect, font customization, redesigned find and replace, startup behavior, dark mode, etc ...

Earlier this year, someone got it to run inside Excel. Like Notepad's noisy graphics, Excel's sluggish framerate makes the game almost unplayable, or at the very least unenjoyable.

Spellcheck in Notepad is the latest feature addition in a long line of improvements to this built-in Windows 11 app. Microsoft announced in December that it’s adding a character count to Notepad ...

For now, three new features are debuting in the Canary and Dev Channels within Windows 11: AI rewriting within Notepad, plus Generative Fill and Generative Erase within Microsoft Paint. Generative ...

Notepad is one of the most basic apps in Windows, but that’s exactly why so many people still love it: it’s a barebones text editor free of distractions. Still, I’ve got to admit it looks a ...