Thankfully, you can still re-enable the old version of Notepad by opening the Settings App (press Windows+i) and navigating to Apps > Advanced App Settings > App Execution Aliases ...

TED Notepad is a free notepad replacement for Windows 11/10, which offers 312 text-processing functions, innovative features and timesaving tools.

From the context menu, select “Open file location” and you will be whisked away to the super-secret location on your computer where Microsoft has chosen to hide Notepad.

Notepad is also helpful for stripping text formatting when you copy content from Web pages into your own business files. To open Notepad quickly, you can create a shortcut for it on your desktop.

In the latest beta version of Notepad (11.2504.46.0), it is also possible to create new texts from a text prompt. You can then edit the document until you are satisfied.

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

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.

With Notepad, however, neither of these features are really necessary. You can bypass any guesswork as to how pasted text will look by stripping its formatting and making it adapt to the styles ...

Open a blank Notepad file Write .LOG (in uppercase) in the first line of the file, followed by Enter. Save the file and close it. Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends ...

Microsoft has finally added a much-requested feature to Notepad, with spellcheck and autocorrect now available in Windows 11.