discussion After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad

[jkj34]

I am posting this here as notepad is used for alot website creation a quick file editor for games heck fallout 76 only had fov support because of notepad.


So all the devs on here that use notepad for a quick file check or perhaps creating something watchout its a mess now.

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It can be turned off in settings but far warning do not open large files with lots of line of codes windows will crash as the program because the program will auto correct every word like a idiot.

 

[User_89876]

Well, that's typical Microsoft for you.

Luckily there are open source alternatives, that are faster, better, provide more features, are stable since years, you get the picture. I personally had best experience with

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[Balcadian]

But... why? What for? This decision hurts my brain.

 

[jkj34]

Well, that's typical Microsoft for you.

Luckily there are open source alternatives, that are faster, better, provide more features, are stable since years, you get the picture. I personally had best experience with

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That program is awesome ive used it in the past you are so correct.

But... why? What for? This decision hurts my brain.

Its like alot of there recent ideas such as recall or there new surface products they need to step back drop the drugs and re think we already have wordpad for this reason now we have 2.

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[ErzuzB]

Eww... auto correct...
I stand proud next to my errors...

 

[mcshootington]

Well, that's typical Microsoft for you.

Luckily there are open source alternatives, that are faster, better, provide more features, are stable since years, you get the picture. I personally had best experience with

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Based on anecdotes of everyone I've seen talking about it, I'm pretty sure at this point that Notepad++ is automatically provided to all programmers when they start working. Like Bald Eagles when an American is born.

 

[BananaPrincess]

I don't like the fact you have to pay for wordpad now, the last version I owned was windows 8.1 and wordpad came free,
I'm on windows 11 and in order to use wordpad now they want money.

 

[Saturnus]

I don't like the fact you have to pay for wordpad now, the last version I owned was windows 8.1 and wordpad came free,
I'm on windows 11 and in order to use wordpad now they want money.

What? I have Wordpad on my Win10 for free.

That makes zero sense. So, probably a Microsoft CEO decision

 

[User_89876]

I don't like the fact you have to pay for wordpad now, the last version I owned was windows 8.1 and wordpad came free,
I'm on windows 11 and in order to use wordpad now they want money.

Really? That's a dumb ass move, since alternatives like notepad++ are much MUCH better and free

 

[BananaPrincess]

Really? That's a dumb ass move, since alternatives like notepad++ are much MUCH better and free

The note pad is still free on windows 11, but wordpad ain't.

 

[jkj34]

What? I have Wordpad on my Win10 for free.

That makes zero sense. So, probably a Microsoft CEO decision

This is the team that did not understand the backlash of copilot and you got all the new ads in windows 11

The note pad is still free on windows 11, but wordpad ain't.

Another reason to never leave windows 10

 

[tealsteam]

microsoft are doing quite a few new things to notepad lately, i quite like the continue from where off and the tabs feature they've added

 

[BobTheDestroyer]

How do you not add a feature that's existed for like a decade or two. Typical of Microsoft I suppose.

 

[Jantio1999]

And the first thing I did, was disable that bullshit, man, I write in 3 languages, and that stuppig spellchecker allways has it wrong.

But that's also why I hate browsers, because it's too much work to constantly change the spellchecker language.

Then we got stupid forum-sites like twitter, where you cannot correct you text, and then get some retard who starts to correct your text. At least give me the option to correct it. Like on this site.

 

[Republican Bear]

All I can say is it's about damn time. As I write fast and post before spellchecking sometimes.

 

[jazzyjim999]

I just noticed that they added this a couple of months ago.. DOH!!