Windows 11: Notepad Gets a Word-Like Editor After 40 Years

Traditional text editor Notebook In Windows 11 it has regained interest and has begun to receive new functions after many years. The latest addition to the program is a spell checker similar to those already present in services such as the Office suite.

According to the website BorderWindows 11 consumer version users can now use the tool during content creation. It is automatically installed with the latest system builds version 11.2402.18.0 It is Notepad that allows this new feature to be added to the program.

New broker Underlines words that may be misspelled red. Right click on them, Some suggestions for similar words appear To make the change, you can add words to the software’s internal dictionary or, if you wish, turn off the corrector in the program settings.

The function was confirmed by Microsoft itself in March of this year, but it was not immediately available. In the following months, an experimental version even arrived for users who were part of the Windows Insiders testing program.

The return of Notepad

First released in 1983, Notepad is the simplest and most intuitive text editor on Microsoft’s operating system. Over the years, it has even been adopted by programmers for writing code.

In Windows 11, the program returned to prominence and remains pre-installed on computers, especially after the “deprecation” of Wordpad, another traditional text editor on the platform.

New features added with updates in recent years include dark mode and dividing documents into tabs instead of the traditional white-background interface.