Editing Windows Notepad (section)

{{short description|Simple text editor included with Microsoft Windows}}
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{{Infobox software
| name             = Windows Notepad
| logo             = File:Notepad Win11.svg
| screenshot       = Windows Notepad.png
| caption          = Notepad on [[Windows 11]]
| author           = [[Richard Brodie (programmer)|Richard Brodie]]
| developer        = [[Microsoft]]
| released         = {{Start date and age|1983}}<br />(as ''Multi-Tool Notepad'')
| ver layout       = stacked
| operating system = [[Windows 10]], [[Windows 11|11]]
| replaces         = [[MS-DOS Editor]]
| platform         = [[IA-32]], [[x86-64]], and [[ARM architecture|ARM]] (historically [[Itanium]], [[DEC Alpha]], [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], and [[PowerPC]])
| genre            = [[Text editor]]
| website          = {{URL|https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9msmlrh6lzf3}}
| license          = [[Freeware]]
}}
'''Windows Notepad''' is a simple [[text editor]] for [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]; it creates and edits [[plain text]] documents. It was first released in 1983 to commercialize the [[computer mouse]] in [[MS-DOS]].