Guest Ed in Seattle Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French dictionary. When I looked under Tools>Options, that was the only language that was offered as a choice. How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary for spell checking? Ed Presson
Guest Nepatsfan Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Outlook Express thinks I'm in France In news:%23jYtccwyHHA.1072@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl, Ed in Seattle <pep38@foxinternet.net> wrote: > OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French > dictionary. When I looked under Tools>Options, that was the > only language that > was offered as a choice. > > How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary > for spell > checking? > > Ed Presson First off, Outlook Express does not include a built-in spell checker. It uses the one supplied with Microsoft Office. See if this article applies to your situation. You no longer have spell checking capabilities in some languages in Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the 2007 Microsoft Office system http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974 You can also get around this issue by installing the Proofing Tools from a previous version of Office. That's the route I took since I had a copy of Office 2003. If you haven't done so already you might want to post your question to the Outlook Express newsgroup. Someone their might have a better solution. Good luck Nepatsfan
Guest Clark Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Outlook Express thinks I'm in France "Ed in Seattle" <pep38@foxinternet.net> wrote in message news:%23jYtccwyHHA.1072@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French dictionary. When I > looked under Tools>Options, that was the only language that was offered as > a choice. > > How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary for spell > checking? > > Ed Presson > Your outta luck, and you now have to move to France. (I think the other reply is your answer) Clark
Guest Gordon Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Outlook Express thinks I'm in France "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@SBXXXIX.com> wrote in message news:uc8EP6wyHHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > In news:%23jYtccwyHHA.1072@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl, > Ed in Seattle <pep38@foxinternet.net> wrote: >> OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French dictionary. When I >> looked under Tools>Options, that was the only language that >> was offered as a choice. >> >> How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary for spell >> checking? >> >> Ed Presson > > First off, Outlook Express does not include a built-in spell checker. It > uses the one supplied with Microsoft Office. See if this article applies > to your situation. > > You no longer have spell checking capabilities in some languages in > Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the 2007 Microsoft Office system > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974 > > You can also get around this issue by installing the Proofing Tools from a > previous version of Office. That's the route I took since I had a copy of > Office 2003. > > If you haven't done so already you might want to post your question to the > Outlook Express newsgroup. Someone their might have a better solution. > > They won't - those are the only solutions....and as OE has been superceded first by Windows Mail and now by Windows Live Mail there probably won't be a fix - like there won't be a fix for links in OE opening in a new window not a new tab in IE7....PITA! (Works in Firefox.....go figure....)
Guest Peter Foldes Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Outlook Express thinks I'm in France Ed Installed Office 2007 by any chance. Office 2007 breaks the OE spell check Best way around this is to install a 3rd party spellcheck program. From Bruce Hagen MS-MVP OE >snip< Vampirefo: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952 TinySpell: http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ (Checks the spelling as you type). Or from this blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80 After installing Office 2007 RTM, you don't have English as a choice of language in the spell checker of Outlook Express and potentially other programs. a.. Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that shipped in prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). There are a number of changes in this new version, but the one that is causing this problem is that Outlook Express doesn't understand the new English Proofing Tools. This is a problem because Outlook Express has never shipped with its own proofing tools but has used the ones shipped by Office. b.. There are a few scenarios in which you won't run into this problem: a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you don't manually uninstall the earlier version of Office. b.. A configuration in which Office 2003 (or earlier) has not been removed. For example, I have Office 2003 still on both of my computers, and I still have English in Outlook Express. c.. The workaround for this problem is to install the English dictionary from Office 2003 (or Office XP). There should be no need to install all of Office just the dictionary. The English Proofing Tools can be found in the Custom Install tree under Office Shared Features|Proofing Tools|English. >end snip< -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Ed in Seattle" <pep38@foxinternet.net> wrote in message news:%23jYtccwyHHA.1072@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French dictionary. When I > looked under Tools>Options, that was the only language that was offered as a > choice. > > How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary for spell > checking? > > Ed Presson > >
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