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

Microsoft is yet rolling retired spellcheck and autocorrect for its Notepad app successful Windows 11, much than 40 years aft the elemental substance exertion was archetypal introduced successful Windows successful 1983. The bundle elephantine started investigating both features successful March, and has present softly started enabling them for each Windows 11 users successful caller days.

The spellcheck diagnostic successful Notepad is astir identical to however Word oregon Edge item misspelled words, with a reddish underline to intelligibly amusement mistakes. I accidental astir identical due to the fact that erstwhile you right-click connected a misspelled connection successful Notepad the spelling submenu isn’t automatically expanded similar Microsoft does successful Word, truthful you person to click again to spot a database of close spellings.

It’s unusual that Microsoft hasn’t afloat adopted the mode spellcheck works successful Word, particularly fixed the institution showed disconnected the quality to right-click and instantly prime the correction successful Notepad during the beta investigating phase. Microsoft Word archetypal had a spellcheck diagnostic successful 1985, erstwhile it was known primitively arsenic Multi-Tool Word for Xenix and MS-DOS systems. Microsoft primitively created Notepad, which was archetypal known arsenic Multi-Tool Notepad successful 1983, to beryllium a stripped down mentation of Word.

You tin alteration oregon disable spellcheck connected a record benignant ground successful Notepad for Windows 11, truthful if you don’t privation to spot corrections successful files similar .md, .srt, .lrc, oregon .lic past those tin beryllium toggled successful the settings menu. Microsoft has besides added autocorrect to Notepad, which means typos are automatically corrected erstwhile spellcheck is enabled. Autocorrect tin besides beryllium disabled successful Notepad’s settings.