- New formatting skills have arrived at the Notepad for Windows 11
- Microsoft has previously tested these features but they are now rolling out to all Windows 11 users
- Some rejoice in the move as a useful addition to the notepad’s editing powers, while others feel that Microsoft is just bloating the text editor
Windows 11S Notepad app has been intertwined with new formatting forces, and the Morfing app, slowly but surely, to become more like Wordpad (the more comprehensive text veterinary that Microsoft preserved a long time ago).
Windows latest reports that it downloaded an update to the Microsoft Store notpad, which gave the new functionality to a PC that ran the finished version of Windows 11 (as opposed to test buildings where these features were previously tried).
The fresh formatting strengths include the possibility of adding different types of headings or sub -headings, using italics or bold text and creating numbered or ballpoint lists. It is now also possible to add hyperlinks to selected text.
Others at Reddit have shared their opinions on the introduction of these new lightweight formatting skills in the last few days, so it seems that the rollout is definitely underway.
So how is the new notepad received so far? To say that it has had a mixed reception that goes by the reactions to Reddit is an understatement.
Analysis: Strengthened or inflated?
The polarization in the feedback for these changes is something. There are two camps that you might guess: those who welcome the speed and those who do not very much.
The welcomers are generally people who miss WordPad that Microsoft sent to the big app cemetery in the sky early last year. WordPad was essentially a mid-term point between Microsoft Word, the company’s full-on-text therapist and notepad, which was originally devised as a super-lightweight weightsksteker for duties at a pinch.
With the compromise app that has now passed, what Microsoft has been doing for a while now is adding more features to the Notepad to compensate for the loss of Wordpad. This latest step to initiating basic formatting tricks strengthens the notepad significantly with regard to its editing of bricks, and a few people are happy about it as a result.
The people who feel something else are concerned that all Microsoft is doing are bloating the notepad. Remember that this introduction of formatting forces is the latest in a wide range of additions, and fear is that the notepad will eventually become more bloated and perhaps less responsive or even slower to start – which defeats the entire app as a quick and easy editor.
However, there is a crucial point to remember here, namely that the new formatting features can all be turned off. If you do not want them, Microsoft has done so, so support for formatting can be handed out with a single click, which should go somehow to place some of the haters – although they still will not approve the general direction Microsoft is taking a notepad, which does not appear to be a course that the software giant is planning to change.
If you have the new version of the Notepad and have noticed the formatting functionality and you are wondering how to turn it off, it’s easy. At the bottom of the app window you see it ‘formatted’ to indicate that formatting is active – just click on it and all formatting will be disabled.
