Microsoft Notepad is a no-frills text editor that comes as a standard feature on computers running the Windows operating system. Although useful for simple tasks such as inputting unformatted text for ...

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 Windows ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad. The new formatting feature is turned on by default, and you just ...

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as if it’s evolving into a better, more modern version of WordPad. Meanwhile, ...

Among the decades-old Windows apps to get renewed attention from Microsoft during the Windows 11 era is Notepad, the basic built-in text editor that was much the same in early 2021 as it had been in ...

Microsoft is testing a redesign of its venerable Notepad app, adding some welcomed modern features like a dark mode, a better search / find and replace interface, better undoing, and more. While the ...

Microsoft is testing several new artificial intelligence (AI) features for first-party apps in Windows 11. On Thursday, the Redmond-based tech giant announced that it is releasing a new update to ...

Open the Classic Notepad from its stored locations Install the Classic Notepad using Optional features in the Settings app Uninstall the new Notepad app Disable Modern Notepad Alias in Settings. Let’s ...

WE ALL HAVE to handle plain text files from time to time, and we know that printing files with the built-in Notepad applet in Windows should be called “pain text.” Fortunately, I’ve found a way to ...

In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...