Microsoft is reportedly working on yet another "advanced" Notepad feature that has little to do with basic text editing.
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Migrating text from one word processing program or word editor to another can pose various problems. The text often copies over fine but the formatting, such as bullets, paragraphs, fonts, point size, ...