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Notepad’s rich text formatting (Markdown) support is now rolling out outside the Windows Insider Program on Windows 11.

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Microsoft is adding bold, italics, even markdown and hyperlinks to the Windows Notepad app, making it look more and more like the older, defunct WordPad application.

To use the Wordpad in Windows 10, type ‘ wordpad ‘, in the taskbar search and click on the result. This will open WordPad. To open Wordpad, you can also use the Run command write.exe.

Well, 24H2 is now here - or it's rolling out, anyway - and as promised, there is no WordPad anymore. Furthermore, fresh installs of Windows 11 won't come with WordPad either.

With that rollout, "WordPad will be removed from all editions of Windows," Microsoft says. "As a result, Windows will no longer have a built-in, default RTF reader.

The tech giant will not include WordPad in Windows 11 version 24H2, which began rolling out on Oct. 2, 2024. This marks the end of WordPad's 28-year tenure as a built-in Windows application.

UPDATE 10/3/24: It's time to say goodbye. With this week's Windows 11 2024 update, WordPad has officially made its way to Microsoft's list of deprecated features. "WordPad is removed from all ...