Microsoft is testing a new feature for Notepad that could see it add tabs to the app, allowing users to open and manage multiple files in the same window.<\/p>\n
A Microsoft employee appeared to have accidentally leaked<\/a><\/strong> the feature in a now-deleted Twitter post in December 2022. Windows Insiders have now started seeing the feature in the latest Dev Channel update.<\/p>\n “With this update, we are introducing support for multiple tabs \u2014 a top requested feature from the community \u2014 where you will be able to create, manage, and organize multiple files in a single Notepad window!” Microsoft’s principal product manager lead, Dave Grochocki, said<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n “There are also new keyboard shortcut keys to support managing tabs as well as some improvements to managing unsaved files, like automatically generating the file name\/tab title based on content and a refreshed unsaved changes indicator.”<\/p>\n He explained that users could drag tabs into their own separate windows if needed.<\/p>\n In late December 2022, a Microsoft employee appeared to have mistakenly posted a screenshot of the feature on Twitter.<\/p>\n The screenshot showed an internal Notepad build with the new tab-based interface along the top part of the app window.<\/p>\n Ironically, it included a warning instructing employees not to “discuss features or take screenshots”.<\/p>\n The tab feature in Notepad comes after Microsoft added tabs to File Explorer<\/a><\/strong> in October 2022.<\/p>\n It started rolling out in an optional cumulative preview update, and Microsoft said a broader update would roll out to all devices running the operating system in November.<\/p>\n Microsoft first revealed<\/a><\/strong> that it was working on tabs in File Explorer in March 2022.<\/p>\n Windows Insiders started seeing the new feature in Microsoft’s latest Dev Channel update after it was accidentally leaked last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":477153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[74302,63172,123,50633,13399,70233,32852],"class_list":["post-477151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-dave-grochocki","tag-file-explorer","tag-microsoft","tag-notepad","tag-tabs","tag-windows-11","tag-windows-insider-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477185,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477151\/revisions\/477185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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