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.

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.

For example, the following Python command could be entered into Notepad, saved to a batch file named "py.bat," and executed: python hello.py ...

Learn how to enable and use Write or Rewrite AI in Notepad on Windows 11 to rephrase a sentence, make it shorter, longer, formal, casual, etc.

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors.

Windows 11 Notepad finally supports formatting and Markdown, and you can switch back to the original Notepad in Settings This article, originally posted in Japanese on 10:50 Jun 02, 2025, may ...

The beloved Notepad app in Windows 11 finally receives a long-requested feature - character count! Learn more aboit it here.

The completed line will look similar to this example, where the markers represent where you pressed the "Tab" key. In Notepad, this will appear as white space, but your computer will read it as a ...

For example, notepad.exe/s is not a valid argument because it does not contain a space. Instead you must add a space so it looks like notepad.exe /s. How to use Command Line Arguments ...

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 ...

We will continue with our Notepad example from the previous article by adding notification support to our Notepad MBean.