All this means that Notepad is now more effective for organizing notes or documents with basic formatting without needing to switch to a full word processor such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs ...

Notepad was launched all the way back in 1983. It was the company’s simplified, free, and bare-bones alternative to Microsoft Word—a more fully featured word processor still popular in 2024.

This morning, I almost chuckled when I saw that Microsoft had finally decided to give its humble text editor, Notepad, spell check and autocorrect features. It’s strange (and shocking) that the ...

It has finally happened. Microsoft’s text editor Notepad just got a spellcheck feature, more than 40 years after the software launched in 1983. For the history buffs, Ronald Reagan was still ...

Microsoft Notepad Finnally Adds Spellchck Feeture After 41 years, the basic function comes to Notepad. If that doesn't impress, how about integrated Copilot AI?

Microsoft is busy fleshing out a number of the higher-profile default apps in Windows 11, and Notepad is the latest application to get some attention with the addition of a very useful feature.

Microsoft has updated the Notepad app on Windows 11 with integrated spellchecking and autocorrect, which only took 41 years to do.

Notepad has received several updates in recent years. Microsoft introduced new shortcuts and improvements to the find/replace dialog and word-wrap in 2018.

In a now-deleted tweet, a Microsoft senior product manager shared that Notepad—Windows’ lightweight word processor—will eventually allow users to open and edit multiple notes using tabs.

Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Notepad for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. The updated version 11.2504.50.0 brings lightweight formatting options to ...