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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Notepad is a very basic text editor with very few additional features beyond typing and saving. WordPad is slightly more sophisticated and is a stripped-down word processing program that offers a ...

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 ...