Ars Technica

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. Or, can someone recomend a simple free ...
Kotaku

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 ...
PC World

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

After more than four decades, the latest version of Notepad sent out to Windows 11 users includes spell check and auto-correct options. Earlier this year, Microsoft killed WordPad—the free and ...