After being a part of the Windows operating system for 41 years, Notepad is finally getting a new spellcheck feature that users have been demanding for nearly as long as the app has existed. This ...

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.

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

In fact, our colleagues at PCMag wrote up a handful of Notepad programming tips back in 2017 that still stand, and some of them might be a tad easier with tabs.

Not everyone who downloads the latest Windows Insider build (11.2402.18.0) will get the updated version of Notepad, as there appears to be some A-B testing going on.

On Windows 11, Notepad is all about simplicity and lightweight. The app doesn't support other programming languages or text prediction, but you can still open and edit most files as simple text.

Notepad++ (free) starts with the basic text editing provided by the Windows Notepad program, and adds a slew of features to help programmers and scripters. Notepad++ may look like plain old ...