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 ...

If you have a paid subscription of Microsoft Office on your system, then you can use the same for counting words in Notepad. The reason is that Microsoft Word has an in-built word counter. All you ...

Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. Windows 11 users now have a new Word-like spellcheck feature inside Notepad. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...

The once-unloved Microsoft Notepad app continues to get new features, with spell check and autocorrect reportedly coming to the Windows staple next. Originally debuting as a heavily stripped-down ...

Notepad has come a long way over the years, establishing itself as a trusted staple for Windows users. It changed little, remained simple and fast, and offered a user-friendly experience. But things ...

This is a spellcheck ability that's now rolling out in testing for the Canary and Dev channels, and you'll see it with Notepad version 11.2402.18.0. As you might imagine, this will highlight spelling ...

Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Notepad for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. The updated version 11.2504.50.0 brings lightweight formatting options to the ...

The only problem? There is already a fantastic fully-featured plain-text editor that has been available for years that is ...

Microsoft is killing off WordPad, its decades-old text editor in Windows. The company will no longer update the software. It will then remove it from a future version of Windows. WordPad has been ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

Use the no-frills Notepad text editor that comes with Windows to handle your business's simple text-based tasks. By default, Notepad inserts line endings when your text reaches the right-hand edge of ...