Goodbye WordPad, hello Notepad
I will admit I never really used WordPad, except when I forgot to install Word first, and Notepad was never my tool for writing. I mostly used it to store plain text before I learned a keyboard shortcut (Shift+Ctrl+V, by the way) to paste as plain text. That said, the recent updates have left me a bit baffled.
Microsoft is now rolling out a new Notepad build to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels. The update adds native table support and improves the built-in AI tools with streaming responses (seriously, does anyone need it in Notepad?).
Source: Microsoft
The new Tables feature l ets users insert simple grids directly in a note using a Table button on the formatting toolbar or Markdown syntax. Once a table is in place, rows and columns can be added or removed from a dedicated Table menu or the right-click context menu. This also reminds me of FrontPage Editor, which I used for my first webpages.
Notepad keeps gaining formatting and AI options, while Word remains the choice for full document editing. I guess 3rd party Notepad++ will still remain installed on my PCs.
Source: Microsoft Windows Blog , TechPowerUP
