Observe that whereas Generative Erase and Take away Background can be utilized without spending a dime, Picture Creator makes use of up AI credit related along with your Microsoft account. You may’t purchase these individually, they arrive as a part of a subscription to Microsoft 365 or Copilot Professional subscriptions, so use them properly. You may learn extra about AI credit and the way they work right here.
AI in Home windows Notepad
Notepad is maybe higher referred to as a code editor than a phrase processor, however lately Microsoft has added extra options in the way in which of formatting and auto-save. For those who open it in Home windows, you will see these options in addition to a Copilot button within the top-right nook of the interface.
You may’t use Copilot inside Notepad to generate new textual content, as you may in Copilot on the net or in different instruments like ChatGPT. As an alternative, the characteristic helps you to rewrite and tweak what you’ve got already written—so earlier than you click on on the Copilot button, you might want to put some textual content into Notepad after which choose it.
With the choice made, click on the Copilot button, and also you get a variety of choices: Make shorter and Make longer can clearly be used to alter the size of the chosen textual content, and you have additionally obtained a Change tone choice if you wish to make the textual content extra inspirational, formal, informal, or humorous. There’s additionally Change format, which helps you to put the chosen textual content into a unique construction: An inventory, advertising and marketing converse, or poetry, for instance.
You may also select Rewrite from this menu for a extra complete set of choices—and to see previews of the rewritten textual content earlier than it is utilized. A brand new pop-up window seems, providing you with extra choices for altering the size, tone, and format. You additionally get totally different variations to decide on between in every case. If you discover one thing you want, click on Exchange to swap it out for the present textual content.
On the time of writing, it appears Notepad is giving everybody a number of AI-powered rewrites without spending a dime—however as with Picture Creator in Paint, you are going to want some AI credit with a Microsoft 365 or Copilot Professional subscription to make use of this extensively.
After all, when you’d reasonably not use these AI instruments and do not wish to see the Copilot button hanging round, you may flip it off altogether: Click on the gear icon (prime proper), then flip off the Copilot toggle swap.
