After Four Decades, Spellcheck Arrives in Microsoft Notepad
Microsoft has finally introduced spellcheck and autocorrect functionality to its Notepad application in Windows 11, more than 40 years after the text editor's initial launch in 1983. The company began testing these features in March and has now gradually enabled them for all Windows 11 users. The spellcheck feature in Notepad operates similarly to the spellcheck in Word or Edge, highlighting misspelled words with a red underline. However, there is a slight difference; when you right-click on a misspelled word in Notepad, the spelling submenu does not automatically expand as it does in Word, requiring an additional click to view the list of suggested corrections. It is curious that Microsoft has not fully aligned Notepad’s spellcheck functionality with that of Word, particularly since the beta phase demonstrated the ability to right-click and instantly select corrections. Microsoft Word first incorporated spellcheck in 1985, under its original name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix and MS-D...