{"id":145077,"date":"2025-05-30T21:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145077\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T21:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:09:08","slug":"microsoft-is-updating-notepad-with-text-formatting-and-markdown-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145077\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is updating Notepad with text formatting and Markdown support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft is adding text formatting to its Windows Notepad app. The significant Notepad <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2025\/05\/30\/text-formatting-in-notepad-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update is available<\/a> for Canary and Dev Channel testers on Windows 11, and introduces bold and italic styling, alongside hyperlinks and even Markdown support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The addition of text formatting in Notepad means there\u2019s now a formatting toolbar at the top of the app, alongside the existing File, Edit, and View options. The toolbar includes access to bold, italic, and hyperlink options, but it also includes support for lists and headings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cThe experience supports Markdown style input and files for users who prefer to work directly with the lightweight markup language,\u201d explains Dave Grochocki, principal product manager lead for Microsoft\u2019s Windows inbox apps. \u201cYou can switch between formatted Markdown and Markdown syntax views in the view menu or by selecting the toggle button in the status bar at the bottom of the window.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Since Notepad is usually used with plain text, you can also easily clear all formatting from the formatting toolbar or from the edit menu in the app. If you\u2019re not a fan of the lightweight formatting options, you can also fully disable this new support in the Notepad app settings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This formatting addition to Notepad comes just a week after Microsoft started testing a new feature in the app that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/672984\/microsoft-notepad-paint-snipping-tool-generative-ai-windows-insiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can generate text for you using AI<\/a>. The new Write feature in Notepad can be used to \u201cquickly draft text based on your prompt,\u201d and alongside these formatting options Notepad is starting to look a lot more like Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is adding text formatting to its Windows Notepad app. The significant Notepad update is available for Canary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[507,12,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-145077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-microsoft","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}