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 ...

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.

Steps to remove Text Formatting in Notepad. Features like text formatting options, spell check, Autocorrect, Copilot AI assistant, and Microsoft Account sign-in.