Microsoft's January 2026 security update has broken Windows 11 apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, introducing dual bugs ...

When you're creating spreadsheet documents to track employee IDs, forecast sales or compare products, you may want to prepare your data in another program and open the resulting file in Microsoft ...

After a Microsoft employee accidentally leaked tabs in Notepad over the holidays, it’s officially in public test builds. After a Microsoft employee accidentally leaked tabs in Notepad over the ...

More Markdown features are coming to Notepad.

Encryption is very important and is actually the best way to protect your data that you don’t want anyone else to access. It is not only important for government, business houses, and corporates but ...

Migrating text from one word processing program or word editor to another can pose various problems. The text often copies over fine but the formatting, such as bullets, paragraphs, fonts, point size, ...

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 ...

In March, Microsoft started testing an update to the venerable Notepad app that added spellcheck and autocorrect to the app’s limited but slowly growing set of capabilities. The update that adds these ...

Image showing Notepad with highlighted text and a dialogue with the results of using the summarize feature to summarize the text. Microsoft Notepad, one of the iconic features of Windows, might seem ...