With that compromise app now gone, what Microsoft has been doing for a while now is adding more features to Notepad in order to make up for the loss of WordPad.

With this update, Notepad now supports Markdown-style input and files, meaning that if you prefer to work directly with this markup language, you can do so more easily. The new formatting toolbar ...

Microsoft revamps Notepad with bold, italic, list, and Markdown support, transforming the simple editor into a powerful writing tool.

That said, since WordPad was given its marching orders earlier this year, Microsoft has bolted new features onto Notepad to flesh it out a bit more - like a spell-check and autocorrect.

WordPad is retiring In the past, WordPad was a kind of bridge between the advanced Word and the rudimentary Notepad. As time passed, WordPad was increasingly forgotten and now its definitive end has ...

Microsoft has announced the end of WordPad, its text editor stuck between the full-featured Word and bare-bones Notepad. As reported by PC Gamer, Microsoft shared in a "deprecated features for ...

On Windows 11, Notepad includes a slew of features you probably don't know, including spell check and autocorrect, font customization, redesigned find and replace, startup behavior, dark mode, etc ...

Having not really been updated since 1983, Notepad is getting rich features without losing its essence.

Meanwhile, WordPad, a free word processor that lives between Notepad and Word, is not long for this world. In a future update for Windows 11, Microsoft has confirmed its plans to remove WordPad ...

Like Notepad, this program has been present on Windows computers for at least 30 years. Microsoft's injection of these latest features means that, unlike WordPad, Notepad is here to stay.

Spellcheck and autocorrect for Windows Notepad is moving from testing and is now widely available on the text editing app.