Windows 30-years old “Notepad” Comes Back to the Microsoft Store with New Features

Windows 30-year old “Notepad” Comes Back to the Microsoft Store with New Features. View, edit, and search through plain text documents and source code files instantly. Notepad now supports Ctrl + Backspace to delete the previous word.

Windows Notepad now available on Microsoft Store with New Features

Windows Notepad

Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows and a basic text-editing program which enables computer users to create documents. This was first released by Microsoft in 1983, But on December 5, 2019, Microsoft has decided against supporting the store-updatable version of Notepad from there Notepad app is removed from Microsoft Store.

Until now, the app was spotted inside the OS but now users will see it on Microsoft Store as well. It is worth adding that this is not the first time the app has appeared in the Microsoft Store.

Originally announced in August last year, Notepad appeared for a while before disappearing. Now it's back, and it's better than ever with a host of new features.

The new Windows Notepad app can let you edit text-based files and source code ‘instantly’, Customize your view with font options.

While the description of the app on the Microsoft Store states;

“Notepad has been the fast and simple text editor on Windows for over 30 years, and now it’s available in the Microsoft Store! View, edit, and search through plain text documents and source code files instantly,”

Windows Notepad Features:

As the 30-year old Microsoft Notepad is back and redesigned with some new features,

1. Edit text-based files and source code instantly.
2. Customize your view with font options.
3. Save in multiple encodings including UTF-8, UTF-16, and ANSI.
4. Notepad now supports Ctrl + Backspace to delete the previous word.
5. Notepad now correctly displays lines that don’t fit entirely on the screen.
6. Arrow keys now correctly unselect text first and then move the cursor.

In addition to this for a while, As spotted by Beta news, the new Notepad app features;

• Wrap-around find/replace: We've made significant improvements to the find/replace experience in Notepad. We added the option to do wrap-around find/replace to the find dialog and Notepad will now remember previously entered values and the state of checkboxes and automatically populate them the next time you open the find dialog. Additionally, when you have text selected and open the find dialog we will automatically populate the search field with the selected text.

• Text zooming: We've added options to make it quick and easy to zoom text in Notepad. There is a new menu option under View > Zoom to change the zoom level and we display the current zoom level in the status bar. You can also use Ctrl + Plus, Ctrl + Minus and Ctrl + MouseWheel to zoom in and out and use Ctrl + 0 to restore the zoom level to the default.

• Line numbers with word-wrap: A long outstanding request has been to add the ability to display line and column numbers when word-wrap is enabled. This is now possible in Notepad and we've made the status bar visible by default. You can still turn the status bar off in the View menu.

Download the latest version of Windows Notepad from the Microsoft Store from here.