The completed line will look similar to this example, where the markers represent where you pressed the "Tab" key. In Notepad, this will appear as white space, but your computer will read it as a ...

ThioJoe has put together a fantastic tutorial explaining these perhaps unheard of Notepad features.

We will continue with our Notepad example from the previous article by adding notification support to our Notepad MBean.

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.

Microsoft has added bold, italics, lists, hyperlinks, and even Markdown to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and more like the now-defunct WordPad.

For example, notepad.exe/s is not a valid argument because it does not contain a space. Instead you must add a space so it looks like notepad.exe /s. How to use Command Line Arguments ...

Windows 11 Notepad finally supports formatting and Markdown, and you can switch back to the original Notepad in Settings This article, originally posted in Japanese on 10:50 Jun 02, 2025, may ...

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter.

Microsoft is testing lightweight formatting and Markdown support in Notepad.