Windows 11’s Notepad now lets you generate tables, which means you can create tidy notes, book lists, or to-do sheets. Tables support in Notepad is rolling out, and it will become available for ...

Windows 11’s context menu in File Explorer has been showing the “Edit in Notepad” option for all kinds of files, including images and videos. For context, it is supposed to show up only when ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

Recap: Since Windows 11 launched in 2021, Notepad has received some of the most significant updates in its 42-year history. While the plaintext editor has traditionally served as a lightweight ...

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed ...

In November, Microsoft began testing an update that allowed users to rewrite or summarize text in Notepad using generative AI. Another preview update today takes it one step further, allowing you to ...

Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes. Dubbed "Summarize," the new and highly-requested ...

If you thought Windows' humble, no-frills text editor would remain untouched by Microsoft's never-ending quest to monetize things, think again. The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months ...

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Juggling multiple instances of Notepad isn’t easy, but I was thrilled when Windows 11 added tabs to Notepad. Now, a single window holds all my open Notepad files without cluttering up my taskbar.

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 ...