Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in ...

Is Notepad becoming WordPad now? Microsoft's new formatting features for Windows 11's text editor are proving to be highly divisive.

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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.

Microsoft’s announcement came soon after it released new updates for Notepad, which also comes free but does not offer the same formatting or features as WordPad or Word.

WordPad is more sophisticated than Notepad, the other free text editing application built into Windows, but offers considerably fewer features than Word.

After WordPad is gone, users looking for basic word processing will need to look to the more-capable Notepad, the free-to-use online version of Microsoft Word, or a free alternative like LibreOffice.

Notepad is still well short of becoming a rich text editor, but there's room for it to pick up a few more basic text and document editing features since Microsoft formally killed off WordPad in a ...

The latest Canary build of Windows 11 is missing WordPad. Microsoft says WordPad will not be reinstallable after updating.

The removal of WordPad is expected to occur in the “future release of Windows,” speculated to be the Windows 12 version anticipated in 2024, loaded with AI-powered features.