[7][8] On the suggestion of Rowland Hanson, Microsoft dropped the Multi-Tool brand name.

Hanson's rationale was that "the brand is the hero" and people wouldn't automatically associate "Multi-Tool" with Microsoft.

[9][12] On 16 February 2022, Microsoft started rolling out a new and redesigned version of Notepad to all Windows 11 users.

Starting with Windows 2000, shortcuts for common commands like "New", "Open", and "Save" were added, as well as a status bar with a line counter (available only when word-wrap is disabled).

Before Windows 10 version 1809, Notepad could not properly interpret either Unix-style or Mac-style newline characters.

[18] On Windows 95 and earlier, Notepad renders text files in the Fixedsys font.

The date, file name, and other information can be placed in the headers and footers with various codes consisting of an ampersand ('&') followed by a letter.

[23][24] Notepad supports the following character encodings: Starting with Windows 10 1809 Insider build, it supports Unix-style (LF) and Classic Mac OS -style (CR) line endings, along with the native DOS/Windows CRLF style.

[25] Opening and editing in left-to-right and right-to-left based languages are done via RichEdit controls and input method editors, available in versions for Windows XP or later.

)[26] This limit was extended to 64 KB in Windows 95, with users now directed to WordPad for larger files.

On Windows XP, Notepad was limited to 32 MB and declined to open bigger files.

[30] Until Windows Vista, this function was imperfect, incorrectly identifying some all-lowercase ASCII text as UTF-16.

[31][32] Notepad lacks many basic features available in other text editors, such as block selection and MDI.