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 president ...

This is a spellcheck ability that's now rolling out in testing for the Canary and Dev channels, and you'll see it with Notepad version 11.2402.18.0. As you might imagine, this will highlight spelling ...

In brief: Notepad didn't change much in the first few decades following its debut in 1983. However, Microsoft has added several significant features to the cleartext editor in the years since Windows ...

After initially upgrading Notepad with the new and enhanced features back in March 2024 for insiders, the upgraded Notepad app is now official in Windows 11... very quietly, we might add. If you're ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away, they ...

Take note: Microsoft is adding spellcheck and autocorrect to Notepad, more than 40 years after the app first debuted. The new version of Notepad is available to Windows Insiders via the Canary and Dev ...

Microsoft announced the newest Windows 11 preview build for the Dev and Canary Channels. There are a handful of updates but nothing was as surprising as Notepad getting a character count after 40 ...

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 ...

After extending its AI-powered Copilot from Windows 11 to Windows 10 and later to Android, Microsoft is now reportedly bringing some of that AI magic to Notepad with text generation capabilities in ...