Soon you can let Microsoft’s Notepad rewrite text for you

Microsoft is adding AI-powered substance editing to Notepad. The feature, called Rewrite, is rolling retired successful preview to Windows Insiders and volition fto you usage AI to “rephrase sentences, set tone, and modify the magnitude of your content,” according to the Windows Insider Blog.

If you’re a Windows Insider with aboriginal entree to the feature, you tin effort it by highlighting the substance you privation to set successful Notepad, right-clicking it, and choosing Rewrite. Notepad volition past show a dialog container wherever you tin determine however they privation to alteration their substance — for example, if it needs to beryllium longer oregon shorter. Rewrite volition past connection 3 rewritten versions that you tin regenerate your enactment with.

It’s worthy noting that you’ll person to motion successful to your Microsoft relationship to usage Rewrite, arsenic it’s “powered by a cloud-based work that requires authentication and authorization.” Microsoft is launching this diagnostic successful preview connected Windows 11 successful the US, France, UK, Canada, Italy, and Germany. In July, Microsoft yet upgraded Notepad with spell cheque and autocorrect.

Along with bringing Rewrite to Notepad, Microsoft volition fto Insiders commencement investigating the caller AI representation editing tools successful Paint previewed past month. The Generative Fill diagnostic allows you to marque additions to an representation based connected a prompt, portion the Generative Erase tin region portion of an representation and blend successful the bare abstraction near behind.

Generative Fill volition “initially” rotation retired to testers with Copilot Plus PCs, but Generative Erase volition beryllium disposable to each Insiders connected Windows 11.