Hate Notepad in Windows 11 because Microsoft keeps adding features to the app, bloating it up? You might like the new 'Edit' app that's in the works now.

The basic text formatting app offers a lot for the Windows 11 users and the latest addition will make it even more useful to more people. The new Windows 11 beta version shows us Notepad letting you ...

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.

Insiders can apply bold, italic, and Markdown-style formatting to distinguish regular text from headers. Notepad also now supports hyperlinks and bullet-point lists.

Microsoft is bringing rich formatting and Markdown support to Notepad, modernizing the app with bold, italics, lists, links, and headings.

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input.

Jun 02, 2025 10:50:00 Windows 11 Notepad finally supports formatting and Markdown, and you can switch back to the original Notepad in Settings ...

Writer's block is no match for Microsoft's latest AI infusion for its Notepad app. The long-neglected Notepad now has the ability to write custom content based on any prompt you feed it, so long ...

AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.

You can also generate summaries by selecting text and using the Ctrl + M shortcut or choosing Summarize from the Copilot menu. You can change the length of the AI summaries in Notepad. Image ...

Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes.