Re: English Spell Checker Switched to French!

Three: It does work with the new French spell check. Something doesn't add
up here.

"Milhouse Van Houten" <btvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That's truly and utterly bizarre for a couple reasons: One, they worked
together up through B2TR. Two, there are only about a bazillion OE users,
and OE is MS's own product. They couldn't manage to keep the files
compatible?!

"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <pdschmid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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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