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 ...

Dave Grochocki, principal group product manager at Microsoft, said in a post on the official blog on May 30, 'With this update, we're introducing lightweight formatting capabilities to Notepad, giving ...

For years, Notepad has existed as a bare-bones text editor. No longer. Microsoft keeps adding to it, including a new update that includes capabilities that you might have expected in another Windows ...

Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as if it’s evolving into a better, more modern version of WordPad. Meanwhile, ...

Open the Classic Notepad from its stored locations Install the Classic Notepad using Optional features in the Settings app Uninstall the new Notepad app Disable Modern Notepad Alias in Settings. Let’s ...

The new feature arrives in the latest Canary channel test build of Windows 11. It adds a character count display to the bottom left corner of the Notepad window. This mimics the behavior of other text ...