Spell Check Anywhere adds spell check to all windows programs including in WordPad.  The spell checking saves all your text formatting such as font, bold, italic and color. 

To spell check in WordPad or in any windows program, download and install Spell Check Anywhere.  Then, press F11 on the keyboard when the typing caret is visible inside the text to spell check.  Spell Check Anywhere highlights misspelled words, and suggests correct spelling.

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Interesting Facts About WordPad

To program a software like WordPad can take about 1 week.  Not too difficult.  However, this is with the current programming tools. Just 7 years a go, it would have been difficult to program something like WordPad taking at least 3 months to program.

7 years a go there was no control that can handle text formatting such as bold, italics and different font sizes and font style mixed on the same line.  So to program something like WordPad would have taken a longtime to write such a text control.

Until 7 years a go, the only control that came with Windows programming was a regular control that displays a single font for the entire document.  Displaying a single font for an entire document is easy because the font letter sizes are of a fixed size.  So to calculate to locate a certain letter on the screen was simple multiplication of the fixes font size by the number of fonts preceding it in the line.

Calculating the location of a letter on a mixed font screen is more complicated and time-consuming.  This is because each letter has a different size, since it uses a different font.  So to find to locate the letter on line x and row y is not multiplication, but a more complicated process of considering the size of each font proceeding it.

A few years a go, Microsoft has done the job for us.  Microsoft has developed was is called a RichText control that already has all this programming.  The RichText control already has all the programming for mixed fonts on the same line.

So now to write WordPad involved just placing a RichText control on a Window and making a user interface to all the functions of the RichText.  About 1 week of work.

An interesting fact about WordPad that is known to some computer users, but not to most is that WordPad can handle large files.  For most computer needs, most documents that are edited are small.  They are seldom more than 100 pages.  However, some people need to edit files that are 1,000 pages long or even 10,000 pages long.

WordPad allows to edit such large file sizes.  This might seem a small point, but programmatically this is an important point.  Unless a software program specifically programs to handle large file sizes, the software usually cannot handle more 500 pages.

WordPad is a wonderful little editor.  It can handle any basic document editing needs of a small business except that it does not have spell check.  Spell Check Anywhere adds spell check to WordPad.  Spell Check Anywhere keeps all text formatting such as bold, italics, underline, font sizes, font styles and color.