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Windows Notepad’s midlife renaissance continues with spellcheck and autocorrect (arstechnica.com)

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Now Windows' only built-in text editor, there's more room for Notepad to grow.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Whatever else you can say about Windows 11—and whatever you think about its pushy tendencies and the Copilot feature that has been rolled out to pretty much everyone despite being labeled a "preview"—the operating system has ushered in a bit of a renaissance for decades-old built-in apps like Paint and Notepad.

An updated version of Notepad currently rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels is adding two more modern features to the old app: spellcheck and autocorrect.

Per usual, spellcheck in Notepad highlights misspellings with red squiggly underlines, and right-clicking the word or pressing Shift + F10 will pop up a short menu of suggested fixes.

If you're upgrading from the Windows 10 version of Notepad, the spellcheck and autocorrect features join the tabbed interface, redesigned Settings screen, an auto-resume feature, and a handful of other tricks that the app has learned throughout Windows 11's development.

Unlike Notepad, WordPad had been mostly left alone since a Windows 7-era refresh that added a user interface ribbon like the one in the (then-current) Office 2007 update.

Updates to Notepad and other apps could roll out before then, though, in keeping with Microsoft's "release them when they're ready" approach to feature additions in the Windows 11 era.

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