PC World

Notepad has spell check. Here’s how to turn it on or off

Microsoft’s biggest apps — Word, Excel, and the rest in the Office suite — have all had spell checking for a long time now. But one notable app from which it was chronically missing? Notepad! Below ...
Windows Central

Windows Notepad will FINALLY support these basic text editing features

The 40-year-old app still receives love and updates from Microsoft. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Notepad will soon support ...
TweakTown

Microsoft adds spell check to Notepad after 41 years, but with an eye-rolling catch

Microsoft Notepad isn't considered among the top text editor programs, but it's certainly one of the oldest and most widely installed. Microsoft first introduced Notepad in May 1983, presenting it as ...
PC World

Over 40 years later, Windows’ Notepad finally has spell check

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away, they ...
PC Magazine

Microsoft Notepad Finally Gets Spell-Check, Autocorrect

UPDATE 7/8: Microsoft is now fully rolling out spell-check and autocorrect to all Windows 11 Notepad app users. The spell-check feature is similar to Microsoft Word's spell-check, which underlines ...
Pocket-lint

40 years later, Microsoft Notepad features spellcheck.

Ben Smith is a writer based in Los Angeles, California who has been covering consumer tech for at least five years. He's written thousands of articles for various sites about laptops, tablets, and ...
Kotaku

40 Years Later, Microsoft Finally Adds Spell Check To Notepad

Microsoft’s free and simple text editor, Notepad, is finally getting a feature that many users have requested for years: Spell check. Finally, when you copy and paste random URLs or passwords into ...
PC Magazine

Microsoft Notepad Finally Gets Spell-Check

For decades, Notepad has been a bare-bones text editor found in Windows. But the program might finally receive an important basic feature: spell-check. Microsoft is now rolling out an update to ...
The Scotsman

Microsoft Notepad: Windows 11 users to get spellcheck and autocorrect on Notepad 41 years after launch

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Windows Central

What you need to know

Windows Notepad now supports autocorrect and spellcheck. The features entered testing among Windows Insiders in March 2024 and have since started rolling out to general users. Notepad remains largely ...
TechRadar

Microsoft’s Notepad goes from a simple text editor to a mini-Word thanks to spell check and autocorrect - but could it lose its charm?

The once-unloved Microsoft Notepad app continues to get new features, with spell check and autocorrect reportedly coming to the Windows staple next. Originally debuting as a heavily stripped-down ...
TWCN Tech News

How to remove Text Formatting in Notepad in Windows 11

Notepad recently got a makeover. Now, it comes with additional features like text formatting options, spell check and autocorrect, Copilot AI assistant, and Microsoft Account sign-in. While these ...