Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and ...

Notepad now lets you use markdown text formatting on Windows 11, which means you can write in Notepad just like you could in ...

The welcomers are generally folks who miss WordPad, which Microsoft sent to the great app graveyard in the sky early last ...

Learn how to use Markdown and rich text formatting in Windows Notepad with our easy guide. Boost productivity with simple ...

Meanwhile, WordPad, a free word processor that lives between Notepad and Word, is not long for this world. In a future update for Windows 11, Microsoft has confirmed its plans to remove WordPad ...

WordPad has been around since Windows 95. It has stood somewhere between Word, its more fully-featured text editor, and the simplicity of Notepad.

After WordPad is gone, users looking for basic word processing will need to look to the more-capable Notepad, the free-to-use online version of Microsoft Word, or a free alternative like LibreOffice.

But now WordPad has gone the way of Clippy, Notepad is the only game in town on a fresh Windows installation. And Microsoft has actually been making it better and better in recent years. The ...

WordPad is more sophisticated than Notepad, the other free text editing application built into Windows, but offers considerably fewer features than Word.

Notepad is still well short of becoming a rich text editor, but there's room for it to pick up a few more basic text and document editing features since Microsoft formally killed off WordPad in a ...