- New formatting capacities have arrived in the notepad for Windows 11
- Microsoft previously tested these features, but they now take place at all Windows 11 users
- Some host movement as a useful addition to the editing powers of the notepad, while others think that Microsoft just inflates the text editor
The Windows 11 notepad application has been expanded by new formatting powers, and the application is transformed, slowly but surely, to become more like WordPad (the most extensive text editor than Microsoft has kept a certain time).
The latest Windows reports according to which he downloaded an update for the notebook from the Microsoft Store which provided the new feature to a PC performing the finished version of Windows 11 (as opposed to test builds, where these features were previously tested).
The new formatting powers include the possibility of adding different types of titles or subtitles, using italics or fat text and creating numbered lists or balls. It is also possible to add hyperlinks to the selected text.
Others on Reddit have shared their opinions on the introduction of these new light formatting capacities in the past few days, it therefore seems that deployment is definitively in progress.
So how is the new notepad received so far? To say that he had a mixed reception, to follow the reactions on Reddit, is an understatement.
Analysis: pulled or swollen?
Polarization in the feedback of these changes is something. There are two camps, as you could guess: those who welcome this move and those who do not do so.
Welcome are generally people who are missing WordPad, which Microsoft sent to the Graveyard Great App in the sky at the beginning of last year. WordPad was essentially a point halfway between Microsoft Word, the complete word processing of the company, and the notepad, which was initially designed as a super light text editor for tasks in a pinch.
With this compromise application, now, what Microsoft has been doing for some time now adds more features to the notebook to compensate for the loss of WordPad. This last movement to inaugurate basic format tips considerably reinforces the notepad in terms of influence, and some are satisfied with this accordingly.
People who feel otherwise concerned about the fact that everything does Microsoft do bloating. Keep in mind that this introduction of formatting powers is the last of a long line of additions, and fear is that the notepad ultimately becomes more swollen, and perhaps less reactive or even slower to start-which goes against the interest of the application as a quick and easy publisher.
However, there is a crucial point to remember here, namely that new formatting features can all be extinguished. If you do not want it, Microsoft has made it possible that the formatting can be distributed in one click, which should go in a way to appease some of the enemies – even if they still do not approve of the general management that Microsoft takes with the notepad, which does not seem to be a course that the software giant plans to modify.
If you have the new version of the notebook and you have noticed the formatting functionality, and you wonder how to turn it off, it’s easy. At the bottom of the application window, you will see, it is said to be “formatted” to indicate that the formatting is active – simply click on it, and all the formatting will be disabled.
