Re: English Spell Checker Switched to French!

OE cannot use the spell checker from Office 2007.
Office 2007 ships with a new version of the spell checking tools that Outlook Express doesn't understand. The workaround to fix this 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'.

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"Tom Lake" <tlake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uIlmGawBHHA.1224@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

"Milhouse Van Houten" <btvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Tom Lake" <tlake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I just installed Office 2007 final and now my spell checker
>> uses a French dictionary rather than English to check my
>> spelling. Of course, since I type in English, most words are
>> flagged as wrong. How can I get English back? It's not listed
>> as a choice in Tools/Options/Spelling.
>
> I'm so glad! I just posted this over in the OE group:
>
> So, I had Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh installed, and all was
> well: OE6 (XP SP2) saw Office's U.S. English proofing tools just fine.
>
> I uninstalled the beta and installed Office 2007 final.
>
> Since that time, the only language listed in OE is French, and indeed,
> those are the only words it knows now.
>
> I've confirmed that the U.S. English proofing tools are installed and that
> (as expected) they're the default in Word, where, BTW, English
> spell-checking works fine.
>
> So...is there perhaps a Registry entry I can check that tells OE where to
> look for the proofing tools, or perhaps the languages?
>
> Note that OE is not displaying any error when spell-checking, it just
> obliviously thinks I'm French now and has that as the only choice of
> language in Tools/Options/Spelling.

Oops! I neglected to add that my case is the same as yours.
Office 2007 works fine. It's Outlook Express that's stuck
in French mode.

Tom Lake

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