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Microsoft starts rolling out Notepad's spellcheck and autocorrect features to all Windows 11 users | More than 40 years after the text editor launched


Notepad saw barely any major changes for decades following its arrival in 1983, but the editor has undergone several upgrades in recent years.

It marks the first time since the venerable text editor debuted more than 40 years ago that the program will highlight misspelled words. However, its lack of unneeded features, speediness, and light interface have long made it ideal for quick note-taking and similar tasks. A slew of changes arrived in 2021, including a dark mode, a redesigned settings page, an improved find/replace interface, and a new multi-level undo tool.

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