A small revolution for users of this admittedly basic, but hugely practical tool.
We almost had to wait! Microsoft designed the Notepad we all know in 1983. At the time, it was called Multi-Tool Notepad, and was subsequently offered on all versions of Windows, whether for the general public or for professionals. For decades, Notepad remained largely unchanged, and Microsoft regarded it as a kind of relic of the past. A useful relic, however, for quickly creating text documents. Recently, however, the Redmond company decided to evolve its product, and so Notepad was equipped with a tab system and a character counter. It has also been given a dark theme and will soon benefit from the integration of Copilot, Microsoft's artificial intelligence.
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While we await the arrival of AI, Notepad has been enhanced with a useful little module: the spellchecker. The module has been tested via the Windows Insider program for several months already, and a few days ago Microsoft decided to roll it out on a large scale. To take advantage of it, all you have to do is update Notepad from your Windows, and then it works in the same extremely simple way as just about any word processor, especially Microsoft Office's Word. In fact, as soon as you type a text, if a mistake is detected, it is underlined in red.
The user can then ignore it, or right-click on the underlined word. Notepad then offers a new option in its context menu, " Spelling ". From here, simply point to the appropriate suggestion to apply the correction or, on the contrary, ignore it. You can also add a word to the Notepad dictionary, or simply deactivate the correction for that session. What's more, you can activate/deactivate the auto-correction function, which is there to correct typos, and the corrector can operate according to file type, depending on whether it's .txt, .md, .srt/.ass, .lrc or .lic. Not the feature of the year, but still very useful!
