Microsoft is distributing new preview versions of the rudimentary text editor Notepad in the Insider channels. It now learns advanced text formatting and also allows Markdown-style input. This makes ...

Windows keeps getting newer features and apps, but Notepad is still the best program it offers thanks to how little bloatware ...

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, ...

Dave Grochocki, principal group product manager at Microsoft, said in a post on the official blog on May 30, 'With this update, we're introducing lightweight formatting capabilities to Notepad, giving ...

It's getting a bit too WordPad-y for my tastes.

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input. The feature is being introduced one year after Microsoft removed ...

Notepad's image integration is now being quietly teased in an email sent to the Windows Insiders ahead of the rollout.

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 you ...