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Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and ...
Windows Latest reports that it downloaded an update for Notepad from the Microsoft Store which provided the new functionality ...
Notepad’s rich text formatting (Markdown) support is now rolling out outside the Windows Insider Program on Windows 11.
Microsoft officially removed WordPad from Windows 11, in a blow to longtime users of the app. WordPad was a useful tool for many, offering a middle-ground between the simplicity of Notepad and the ...
If you're one of those people who's lamenting the loss of a super-streamlined text editor in Windows 11 - now Microsoft has binned WordPad, and turned Notepad into more of an approximation of that ...
Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Notepad for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. The updated version 11.2504.50.0 brings lightweight formatting options to ...
Introduced alongside Windows 95, WordPad offered a built-in rich text editor for users unwilling to pay for a full Microsoft Office license. It filled a middle ground between Word and Notepad.
Microsoft is adding bold, italics, even markdown and hyperlinks to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and more like the older, defunct WordPad application.
This new Notepad capability is rolling out to all Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels who have updated the app to version 11.2504.50.0. Stream of new Notepad features ...
Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post ...
The workaround here is pretty simple, thanks to Microsoft. They have now made apps like Notepad, Wordpad, and Paint Optional features on Windows. This means they can be uninstalled and reinstalled ...
Notepad is more liked than WordPad, for sure - and used by coders a great deal - but still, there are folks who will miss the middle of the road compromise that the latter represented.