With Notepad, however, neither of these features are really necessary. You can bypass any guesswork as to how pasted text will look by stripping its formatting and making it adapt to the styles ...

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

Microsoft has added bold, italic, and Markdown support to Notepad for Windows 11, updating the famously simple text editor with formatting tools.