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Windows Forum / Outlook Express / General Topics / January 2008Spell check not checking in english
For some reason, my spell check in Outlook Epxress is not checking in english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. You have to download a spellchecker. Microsoft no longer supplies an English spell checker in their office products. Search Google for a spellchecker, download and install. > For some reason, my spell check in Outlook Epxress is not checking in > english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. Office 2007 caused this. 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 Office 2007 breaks OE's spell check. Downloading a free spell check is the simplest way around this. Vampirefo: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952 TinySpell: http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ (Checks the spelling as you type). Australian English Spell Check (Also suitable for other English speaking countries.) http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oespellcheck/ If you have a previous version of Office, see this: http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2006/20061228.htm  SignatureBruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA > For some reason, my spell check in Outlook Epxress is not checking in > english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. Thanks, I have seen MS break other developers' apps, but breaking and not fixing their own is just absurd. > Office 2007 caused this. > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> For some reason, my spell check in Outlook Epxress is not checking in >> english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. Don't assume they broke it and refuse to fix it. There may be other far reaching reasons. > Thanks, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >>> For some reason, my spell check in Outlook Epxress is not checking in >>> english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. I too have the same problem and its really frustrating. Microsoft office is obviously created by microsoft but according to my outlook express about, its also created by microsoft (I have version 6) why don't they just do an update to rectify the problem as microsoft have created both systems. R > Don't assume they broke it and refuse to fix it. There may be other far > reaching reasons. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > >>> For some reason, my spell check in Outlook Epxress is not checking in > >>> english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. Ask them, but don't hold your breath. Contact Us: Questions About Microsoft Products: https://support.microsoft.com/common/survey.aspx?scid=sw;en;1214&showpage=1&WS=s upport SignatureBruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA >I too have the same problem and its really frustrating. Microsoft office >is [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] >> >>> For some reason, my spell check in Outlook Epxress is not checking in >> >>> english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. I'll provide a little historical perspective on this issue. Going back to the Internet Mail and News (IMN) program which is the predecessor for Outlook Express, Microsoft elected to put in the spell checker hooks but not include the shared proofing tools that are needed for the hooks to function. This is about 12 years ago. At the time IMN was not shipped with Windows, but a free downloaded when most people had only dial-up connections (and even slower than today's dial-ups). So assuming that most people had a Microsoft product with the shared proofing tools (Word, Office, Works, etc.) or would have an incentive to buy that would make the download much smaller and more manageable. Apparently Microsoft has seen no reason to change that model with Outlook Express. Problems started a few years ago when Works version 7 came out and they changed the proofing tools there. I don't know why they were changed, may for some new features. The existing OE hooks aren't compatible with that. For Office, the change came with the 2007 version. At this point, Outlook Express is an orphan product. Other than security updates, no development is being done on it. Now Microsoft's preferred free mail client for both Vista (where OE isn't an option) and XP is Windows Live Mail. As for the Office 2007 update. If you had a working spell checker in OE before the update, you can reinstall the proofing tools for the old version. You can have multiple versions of the proofing tools installed as well as multiple version of Office (or multiple version of Works). The problem really comes about because the default upgrade model is to uninstall the old version and its proofing tools. SignatureMike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm >I too have the same problem and its really frustrating. Microsoft >office is [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] >> >>> checking in >> >>> english. Everything else is in english. How can I fix this. |
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