Jarte
Freeware

{The three separate downloads are the same, with the exception of the 
native Spell Checker being either in English, French, or Spanish.}  
Jarte requires "riched20.dll" (which is not part of Windows 2000).


Jarte is a direct replacement for the Windows WordPad word processor 
(it even uses the same MicroSoft engine as WordPad).  

WordPad is sufficient for the majority of word processing needs.  
However, WordPad has one glaring and annoying weakness... it has NO 
Spell Checker!  Jarte adds the missing spell checker, plus incorporates 
WordPad enhancements added by MicroSoft but never incorporated into 
their "never-enhanced" WordPad Skin.


NOTE: You must manually change the associations to the .DOC, .RTF, 
and .WRI file extensions from WordPad to Jarte, if you want Jarte to 
launch on a document "double-click" instead of WordPad.


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RichText DLL
Free for Windows users

Word Processors that need to access the Windows RTF file format used 
by Microsoft Word require the Microsoft RichText DLL.  This library 
unfortunately does not ship with Microsoft Windows (although it is 
bundled as part of Microsofts free Word Viewer program).

To upgrade Windows, simply drop this riched20.dll file into the 
WINNT SYSTEM32 (or WINDOWS SYSTEM) directory.  
The download file = riched20.zip

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