Microsoft's Notepad gets spellcheck and autocorrect 40 years after its inception

Microsoft has finally rolled out spell check and autocorrect features to its Notes app in Windows 11, more than 40 years after it first introduced a simple text editor to Windows in 1983. Features are now slowly starting to enable them for all Windows 11 users in recent days. The spell feature in the notebook almost shows the words of spelling errors with a name or edge of the word or edge, and the reddish line clearly appears. I said this is almost the same because when you are right, click on spelling errors "Notepad", the spelling will automatically not expand the word like Microsoft, so you need to click again to see the correct spell list.

Oddly enough, Microsoft has not fully accepted how the spelling test works in words, especially considering that the company showed the ability to right -click on the mouse and immediately select the correction in the beta test phase. Microsoft Word first was a spelling test function in 1985 when it was originally called the name of several tools for Xenix and MS-Dos systems. Notepad, originally called All-in-One Notepad, was originally created by Microsoft in 1983 as a stripped down version of Word.

You can enable or disable spell checking based on file type using Notepad in Windows 11, so if you don't want to see corrections in files like .md, .srt, .lrc, or .lic, you can do so in the settings switch. menu. Spellcheck is also disabled automatically in log files and other file types associated with coding. Microsoft has also added autocorrect to Notepad, which means typos are automatically corrected when spellcheck is enabled. You can also disable autocorrect in Notepad's settings.

Microsoft is gradually adding more and more features to its Windows 11 Notes app, just in time for the company to remove the built-in WordPad app from Windows 11 later this year. Notepad now comes with character counting, dark mode, tabs, Copilot integration, and even a virtual fidget spinner.