Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter.

If your Excel files are opening in Notepad on Windows PC, here's how you can reset the settings to make .xls, .xlsx, etc files open in Excel.

Notepad won't require a Microsoft account to use, despite the initial impression. The sign-in prompt is actually for Copilot, not Notepad itself. Impending worry about future app requirements ...

Microsoft announced today that they are adding support for Unix & macOS End of Line characters to Notepad in the latest Windows 10 Insider build.