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Over 40 years later, Windows’ Notepad finally has spell check

Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and surprisingly capable built-in word processor that debuted in Windows 95. For this, they must be punished. Yet while Microsoft taketh away, they ...
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40 Years Later, Microsoft Finally Adds Spell Check To Notepad

Microsoft’s free and simple text editor, Notepad, is finally getting a feature that many users have requested for years: Spell check. Finally, when you copy and paste random URLs or passwords into ...
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Adding spell checker to WordPad, or WordPad replacement

Does anyone know of a way to add a spell checker to WordPad under Windows XP? I would love to build an interface to aspell, but don't know where to begin. <BR><BR>Or, can someone recomend a simple ...