Notepad has been with Windows since the beginning. Microsoft has been continuing this application since Windows 1.0 and the reason is its simplicity and ease of use. Yes, we do have endless fancy text ...

If you have a paid subscription of Microsoft Office on your system, then you can use the same for counting words in Notepad. The reason is that Microsoft Word has an in-built word counter. All you ...

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 ...

The once-unloved Microsoft Notepad app continues to get new features, with spell check and autocorrect reportedly coming to the Windows staple next. Originally debuting as a heavily stripped-down ...

To me, it seems like Notepad's spellcheck is more word-focused instead of trying to identify the context and figure out which word works best in that case. There are countless other such examples. I ...

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Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

If you regularly use Windows Notepad, there is a major update which you will have to know about. As part of the latest Windows 11 developer build, Microsoft has added a slew of long-requested features ...

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

Among the many changes to the operating system that came with Windows 11, some of the ones that have gone under the radar and underappreciated went to Notepad – the simple, often-used little ...

On Windows 11, you can now create tables with the expansion of the Markdown support in Notepad, and here's how to get started.

It's easy to want it all from your word processor. To want encouragement and spell-checking, Comic Sans and Times New Roman and Adobe Garamond Pro. To want the blank page to feel like a window into ...