Microsoft is bringing AI capabilities to its simplistic Notepad app, which is understood for its plain textual content features, akin to saving in .txt files.
The brand new function, referred to as Rewrite will let you generate different textual content to suit your particular wants. You’ll have the ability to modify the textual content to be longer, shorter, or to be written in a sure tone or format. The function will generate three variations so that you can choose, and additionally, you will have the choice to retry if not one of the outcomes meet your requirements.
The function works by highlighting your required textual content and right-clicking together with your mouse — or choosing Ctrl + I together with your keyboard. This can carry up a textual content field displaying the choice textual content choices generated by AI, Microsoft mentioned on its Windows Insider blog.
Microsoft is clearly not the one model utilizing AI to assist customers improve their writing. The Rewrite function is much like the Summarize and Refine options inside Google Workspace, and the Assist Me Write function inside ChromeOS.
Rewrite shall be out there as a software program replace for Notepad model 11.2410.15.0 coming to Home windows Insider customers below the Canary and Dev Channels. Microsoft has detailed that you simply want a Microsoft account to make use of the Rewrite in Notepad preview.
The function is accessible on Home windows 11 within the U.S., France, U.Ok., Canada, Italy, and Germany. Moreover, customers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand utilizing subscribed to Microsoft 365 Private and Household and Copilot Professional can use AI credit to make use of rewrite in Notepad.
Since Rewrite is being launched as a preview, there is no such thing as a phrase on whether or not the function shall be out there as a full model rollout.
Along with Rewrite, Microsoft additionally detailed updates to Paint, together with Generative fill and Generative erase.
