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Microsoft’s Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after launch


Notepad keeps getting more and more new features.

It’s strange that Microsoft hasn’t fully adopted the way spellcheck works in Word, especially given the company showed off the ability to right-click and instantly select the correction in Notepad during the beta testing phase. Microsoft has also added autocorrect to Notepad, which means typos are automatically corrected when spellcheck is enabled. Notepad now has a character count, dark mode, tabs, Copilot integration, and even a virtual fidget spinner.

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