You can pick a custom keyboard shortcut, and you can decide to simply press that shortcut instead of pressing and holding it.

Notepad has always been one of Windows’ most honest tools. Open it, type, save, close. No drama. But in 2025, even this tiny pocket of simplicity isn’t safe from the AI wave sweeping through Microsoft ...

The latest update for Notepad adds the ability to create and paste in tables, giving the text editor some expanded functionality for handling data. Microsoft is also upgrading Notepad's AI ...

TL;DR: Microsoft Notepad for Windows 11 now supports table creation with an easy toolbar grid and enhanced AI-powered Write, Rewrite, and Summarize tools for faster text generation. While these ...

A new version of Notepad for Windows 11 was released with support for Markdown, the popular markup language for all kinds of text. The update adds support for subheadings, italics and bold text, ...

Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Notepad for Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. The updated version 11.2504.50.0 brings lightweight formatting options to the ...

Tech companies aren’t holding back when it comes to stuffing artificial intelligence capabilities into every app and piece of hardware they can, and even the most basic software tools are getting ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

Microsoft Notepad has been around for decades, offering a simple tool for viewing and editing text-based documents on Windows computers. But last year Microsoft started to adding features like a spell ...

Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes. Dubbed "Summarize," the new and highly-requested ...