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 ...

Despite its slim profile and Windows 3.1-style interface, Notepad is a tool that Windows users have come to know and love, using it for all manner of tweaking, quick editing, and other tasks.

As I use Notepad++ a lot and take screenshots of code inside it, I sometimes disable the display of line numbers in the editor window. Unfortunately, this means I usually forget how to enable them ...

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