A rumor of Notepad for Windows 11 now requiring Microsoft Account sign-in has spread like wildfire, but all is not as it seems. advertisement. tom's Hardware.

The company dropped AI features for Notepad a few months back, and now it’s prompting users to pay for a Microsoft 365 subscription to use AI features like Rewrite.

If you've done any more than cursory text editing using Windows' built-in Notepad application, you know that Notepad is at best sorely lacking in the . Skip to Main Content.

If the Rewrite icon is not there, open Windows Notepad Settings and scroll down to the AI Features section. There you will see a Rewrite option. Use the toggle to turn in on/off. Related: How to ...

Learn how to enable and use Word Wrap in Notepad. We also show you how to fx 'Notepad Word Wrap not working' issue in Windows 11/10.

The Notepad update has brought in the ability to use Rewrite, which is a Copilot feature that gets the AI to redraft any selected text (an ability seen in testing with Windows 11 late last year).

There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now. Here’s How to Use It. AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities.

And Notepad defaults to margin settings that don’t accommodate a typical 80-column text file. If you want a quick hard copy of your plain text files, the formatting change may distract from ...

JavaScript scripts can be created in any text editor, such as Notepad and WordPad, but must be saved with a ".js" extension to be functional. Create a new text file and name it "timer.js." ...