Ctrl+Shift+S will open the Save as… dialog. Ctrl+W will close the current Notepad window. Notepad can now open and save files with a path that is longer than 260 characters, also known as MAX_PATH.

You can change the default Character Encoding in Notepad from UTF-8 to ANSI, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE, UTF-8 BOM. using Registry Editor.

Notepad is getting an update that introduces a number of improvements with the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809). In this guide, we show you them all.

The latest Windows 10 Fast Ring test build, No. 18298, adds a bunch of new Notepad features, alongside other relatively minor feature and settings updates.