Notepad finally gets spellcheck and autocorrect on Microsoft Windows 11

Microsoft made a number of upgradess to Notepad within the final couple of years. The textual content editor appears like a contemporary app, provides tab help, and might depend characters and phrases. Now, Notepad customers on Microsoft Windows 11 can use spellcheck and autocorrect to weed out typing inconsistencies.

Microsoft Windows Latest noticed this characteristic earlier in an Insider construct when Microsoft was testing it. Both these options are a no brainer in a textual content editor, however it took 4 many years for the Redmond big to comprehend that.

Still, it’s a minute addition that each Notepad consumer will use. After updating the Notepad app to model 11.2405.13.0 on our Microsoft Windows 11 PC, we seen that spellcheck and autocorrect options have been pre-enabled. Note that the autocorrect characteristic requires the spellcheck to be energetic to repair your textual content errors.

Since many individuals use Notepad to have a look at textual content information and different file codecs(.srt,.lrc,.md, and more), you’ll be able to flip off the spellcheck characteristic for a few of them. Code information are one of many examples that don’t want a spellcheck (except you wish to verify spelling errors in feedback).

As proven within the screenshot beneath, Notepad highlights the wrong spelling of the word. When you hover the cursor over it, it shows some recommendations. You may right-click and choose the spellcheck choice from the context menu or press the Shift + F10 keyboard shortcut.

Apart from this much-needed characteristic improve, Microsoft can also be experimenting with Copilot integration in Notepad.

Send Notepad textual content to Copilot

In the primary half of 2024, Microsoft Windows Latest seen the rampant inclusion of Copilot in Microsoft Windows 11 Insider builds and native apps. Among these, we noticed an “Explain with Copilot” choice in Notepad.

The characteristic sends the chosen textual content to Copilot, the place you’ll be able to ask it to interpret and clarify it. But in just a few latest builds, the choice has disappeared from the context menu. It could possibly be due to the truth that Copilot is a full-fledged app now.

Maybe the preliminary testing didn’t garner sufficient curiosity from the customers, so Microsoft determined to scrap the concept. If Microsoft desires so as to add an AI rationalization characteristic in Notepad, it might be higher if it labored inside it. Jumping to Copilot within the sidebar provides a number of steps and isn’t expertise.