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After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad


Feature rolled out to insiders back in March, now available to the masses.

After several years of neglect, Notepad received wrap-around find/replace, text zooming, and line numbers with word-wrap enabled (plus some performance boost with large files). Users of the latest Notepad on Windows 11 will instantly see characteristic (red) wiggly lines start to appear under their questionable vocab. There is definitely more danger of this phenomenon now, as WordPad has been read its last rights, and has been absent in fresh Windows 11 from Build 26020 Insider Preview’s Canary Channel and onwards.

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