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

Fish sighs, runs the file through a utility to convert Unix-style line breaks to DOS-style line breaks, and gives the file a .TXT extension. Then he hits reply again: “Please use WORDPAD.

The WordPad removal comes just a day after Microsoft announced it was upgrading Notepad with features like autosave and tab retraction. The Windows Notepad app in Windows 11 was updated for the ...

Microsoft has been cramming more and more features into the Windows 11 Notepad, but is that for the better?

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

We explain the difference between Notepad (simple text editor), WordPad (basic word processor), and Microsoft Word (advanced word processor) in Windows 11/10.

The differences between Notepad and WordPad, how useful they are and what are the alternatives.

In case you are ever unable to open WordPad or Notepad or it is missing entirely from your PC, here is how you can bring it back.