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

AI tools have arrived in two of the most basic and long-serving Windows utilities. Here’s what they do and how you can turn them off if you prefer.

Notepad now allows you to write Markdown without installing anything extra. Use toolbar shortcuts to apply formatting, switch views, and clear formatting when needed.

New prompts to subscribe to Microsoft 365 have started popping up when trying to use Notepad's AI features, leading to confusion.

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

And Notepad defaults to margin settings that don’t accommodate a typical 80-column text file. If you want a quick hard copy of your plain text files, the formatting change may distract from ...