The interface is wonderfully uneventful, which is exactly how I like my text editors.

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, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. If you're one of those people who's lamenting the loss of a super-streamlined text editor in Windows 11 - now Microsoft has binned WordPad, and turned ...

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If you feel like Notepad in Windows 10 and 11 could benefit from some extra features, good news: the app will soon get proofreading capabilities with some additional customization options. The default ...

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 ...

Guide When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Notepad in Windows 11 recently received plenty of updates, and even more are coming soon.

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed ...

Windows 11 has quietly added a new feature to your PC: AI-powered editing to the Windows 11 Notepad app, called Rewrite. In November, Microsoft began testing the addition of AI rewrite capabilities in ...