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Notepad's best feature is its simplicity — and I'm worried Microsoft is slowly taking it away

As time goes on, Microsoft keeps adding more and more features to Windows, and it can be a good thing just as much as it can be a bad thing. Some features you can't imagine living without, and others ...
The Verge

Notepad in Windows 11 is finally getting a spellcheck feature

Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. Microsoft continues to improve Notepad with useful features in Windows 11. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, ...
TweakTown

Notepad now lets you create tables, but is it one feature too many for this simple app?

TL;DR: Microsoft Notepad for Windows 11 now supports table creation with an easy toolbar grid and enhanced AI-powered Write, Rewrite, and Summarize tools for faster text generation. While these ...
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 ...
Lifehacker

You Can Try Notepad’s New AI Summarizer in Windows 11 Now (If You Pay)

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Microsoft is adding new AI features to Notepad ...
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 correspondent and author of ...
TweakTown

Extra features for Windows 11 Notepad go beyond worries about bloat, as new security flaw shows

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Windows 11's Notepad app is slowly becoming WordPad, after Microsoft ditched the latter, and made up for that (in a fashion) by adding quite a few extra ...
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 ...
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 ...
MSN on MSN

RetroPad is a 'full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP' in just 2,749 bytes

You can grab the RetroPad code and .exe from GitHub.
Gizmochina

Notepad finally gains a character count feature after years of waiting

The new feature arrives in the latest Canary channel test build of Windows 11. It adds a character count display to the bottom left corner of the Notepad window. This mimics the behavior of other text ...
PC World

NotePad++ offers portable notepad features for programmers

Numbered lines make Notepad++ an excellent text editor for programmers. Notepad++ is a portable notepad that users like computer programmers will find enormously useful, because it offers something ...