Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as ...

Notepad has recently gotten a dark mode, actual tabs, a character count and, well, a virtual fidget spinner. It’s also been stuffed to the gills with AI, in the form of Copilot integration.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that ...

Microsoft has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983.

In Notepad, this will appear as white space, but your computer will read it as a "tab" character:Bob Jones 32 Repeat for each entry. Save the file.

Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad. In an update rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, you’ll be able to summarize information in Notepad by ...

Notepad keeps getting better in Windows 11. Microsoft is adding spellcheck, autocorrect, and even a character count soon.