RE: Spell Check in Outlook Express 6.0

[Guest LT Wisconsin]

I upgraded to office 20078, and the language changed on me to french and

would not change back.

An answer I received from Bruce Hagen MVP indicated to try a couple of free

downloads. I tried the first one and it worked.

here is the information.

 

Quote from Bruce Hagen MVP

 

"Office 2007 breaks OE's spell check. Downloading a free spell check is the

simplest way around this.

 

Some free spell check programs.

 

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.

--

Bruce Hagen

MS-MVP Outlook Express

~IB-CA~

End quote.

 

 

 

"LT Wisconsin" wrote:

> when I installed Office 2007, my outlook express spell check language changed

> to french and cannot be changed back. EAchprgram in office 07 indicates

> english, and my main language on the pc english, but the OE choice is nothing

> but defaults to french with no other choices.

> I have searched for a patch but have not found one.

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"PeterB" wrote:

> The spell checking option is not available on my Outlook Express 6.0 from the Options menu. How do I obtain the necessay file to install? I'm using 98 SE.

>

> Pete