To turn off overtype in Notepad in Windows 11/10, press the Insert key, and you'll switch back to Insert mode where your text behaves normally.

Steps to remove Text Formatting in Notepad. Features like text formatting options, spell check, Autocorrect, Copilot AI assistant, and Microsoft Account sign-in.

Microsoft announced today that the Windows 11 Notepad application is getting a text formatting feature supporting Markdown-style input.

Microsoft has added bold, italic, and Markdown support to Notepad for Windows 11, updating the famously simple text editor with formatting tools.

Jun 02, 2025 10:50:00 Windows 11 Notepad finally supports formatting and Markdown, and you can switch back to the original Notepad in Settings ...

Insiders can apply bold, italic, and Markdown-style formatting to distinguish regular text from headers. Notepad also now supports hyperlinks and bullet-point lists.