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 ...

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 ...

You might think that, as a generic text editor, Notepad would sit out Microsoft’s AI roadmap. Nope. And Microsoft is also testing shortcuts in which Copilot can be used to trigger often-used actions, ...

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 ...