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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Notepad finally gets spellcheck, autocorrect for all Windows 11 users

Microsoft has finally released a spell check and autocorrect feature in Notepad for all Windows 11 users, forty-one years after the program was introduced in 1983. The new features have been tested by ...
Tech.co

Microsoft Notepad Finnally Adds Spellchck Feeture

Bad spellers rejoice, Microsoft has finally added a spellcheck function to Notepad, and it only took 41 years. In a year that has seen ChatGPT and other super intelligent AI systems thrust into the ...
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 ...
Gizmodo

Microsoft Notepad Receives Spell Check for the First Time Since 1983

This morning, I almost chuckled when I saw that Microsoft had finally decided to give its humble text editor, Notepad, spell check and autocorrect features. It’s strange (and shocking) that the app ...
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 ...
Lifehacker

Notepad in Windows 11 Gets Spellcheck and Autocorrect

Microsoft has given one of its workhorse applications a long-needed update in Windows 11. In a recent update, Microsoft has finally added spellcheck and autocorrect to Notepad, the operating system’s ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 Notepad finally gets spellcheck and autocorrect

Microsoft continues to add new features to the Windows Notepad, today announcing a preview release with built-in spellchecking and an autocorrect feature. Windows Notepad languished without new ...