Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter.

Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and more like the now-defunct WordPad.

How to Get Notepad on the Desktop. The basic text editor Notepad comes installed as a native Windows accessory. Although Windows lets you launch the Notepad application through the Start menu or ...

The freshly updated Notepad app with native Arm64 support is rolling out now to Windows Insiders on Windows 11 Microsoft's Dev, Beta and Release Preview channels.

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in WordPad.

In Notepad version 11.2507.26.0, which is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders, the updated context menu now matches the look of Windows 11 24H2’s context menus, with quick actions for Copy ...

Windows Notepad and Paint are still free - but the AI will cost you. Here's how much Each use of AI in Notepad and Paint in Windows 11 chews up a credit from a Microsoft 365 subscription.

In the latest feature update to Windows 11, you can insert emoji icons into a Notepad file, alongside other new features. Notepad has not seen improvements since 2006, with a visual update to ...

In case you are ever unable to open WordPad or Notepad or it is missing entirely from your PC, here is how you can bring it back.

Old dog, new trick: Microsoft tests a tabbed UI for Notepad.exe in Windows 11 Windows 1.0-era app picks up a hot new Windows XP-era feature.

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