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Windows 11 Notepad Gets Spellcheck Feature
Everyone's favorite plaintext editor, the Windows Notepad, now has Spellcheck. The latest update to Notepad in Windows 11 adds spellchecks, along with spelling suggestions. The company had released Spellcheck and Autocorrect to Insiders in March 2024, and has now rolled the feature out to the regular userbase. The feature is enabled by default. The app now also has an autocorrect feature that, well, automatically corrects common typos the way a fully fledged word processor would. Both Spellcheck and Autocorrect are now enabled by default, and can be turned off in the gearwheel screen. Starting with Windows 11, Microsoft turned many of the popular Windows Accessories to UWP apps. These used to be Win32 apps in previous Windows versions. The company continuously updates these apps through the Windows Store platform, and we've noticed that Notepad got several new features it never had over the past three decades, including tabs, session restore, and now Spellcheck.
46 Comments on Windows 11 Notepad Gets Spellcheck Feature
I know there must be some purist somewhere who refuses to use anything other than Notepad but they're probably not using Win 11 anyways.
I'll throw this one the in the "nice to have but ultimately useless" bucket.
they already begin to upload a lot of your personal files to their Servers without consent and opt out only.
www.techspot.com/news/103544-onedrive-data-synchronization-windows-11-now-automatic.html
Edit: As wendel pointed out last week about Windows on Arm, MS has lost the way on how to make proper OS while they have been copying worst things of their competitors. It wont be long before MS becomes irrelevant.
Bbbut MS absolutely has to screw up one thing or another. If I click on the same .txt file several times (and that's nearly always by mistake), Notepad opens it in separate tabs and lets me edit each one independently, until I find out what mess I have made.
In contrast, Win 7 opens multiple windows, so the poor user's mistake is readily apparent.
I write most of my stuff in notepad, because it's so fast, and most importantly when you copy and paste it into say a wordpress blog it retains format. Try doing that with something made in Word. Sure for proper editing and stuff use something else, but for pure writing nothing beats notepad to me. I start it with ctrl-alt-a, so if I need to write something quickly I just press those buttons and start to type. People have been saying this since the 90's. You can disable tabs. I genuniely don't understand why people like tabs outside browsers.
it's to edit files without touching anything but what you changed.
if it adds line breaks and autocorrects code the entire program becomes useless
Joke aside, that makes you the exception to the rule and you're not alone, but if we count Notepad users as a percentage of the total Windows userbase and plot it in a pie chart you'd be a single line and the percentage would round to 0% up to 4 or 5 decimals.
This all leads to one thing: the feeding of a larger LMM / AI / Database with at least a billion of users, which is the wet dream of every company like Google, Meta, Apple and such. Microsoft is up front with these practices and you can turn that to a halt by simply taking a few days of time in order to (properly) learn linux.
And the best of all yet is that, you can emulate windows applications on Linux using Whine, if there's no substitute or you really need that one tool.