Ever since Microsoft killed WordPad in 2024, the much-simpler Notepad app has been receiving several new features—almost as if it’s evolving into a better, more modern version of WordPad. Meanwhile, Microsoft is introducing an even simpler text editor called Edit.
Some of the recent additions to Notepad include spell check, AI-generated text, and Markdown formatting—and the improvements aren’t done yet. The latest news is that Notepad will soon have updated context menus in Windows 11, reports Neowin.
In Notepad version 11.2507.26.0, which is currently rolling out to Windows Insiders, the updated context menu now matches the look of Windows 11 24H2’s context menus, with quick actions for Copy, Cut, Paste, Select all, and Delete, plus other actions like Write, Rewrite, Summarize, Define with Bing, and more.
You can technically get this new version of Notepad on non-Insider versions of Windows 11, but the steps are somewhat complex. It’s likely that this new version of Notepad will be rolled out to the general public in September or October.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
