Re: Default language changed after Office 2007 installation

Bob,

Thanks for the prompt reply. So just to make sure I understand this,
installing Microsoft's Office 2007 purposefully broke Microsoft's Outlook
Express? I find it a little hard to believe that one team will completely
blow away another team's fundamental spell check capability and then require
users to use 3rd party products for something as simple as spell check. I
can understand not being able to use Office 2007's more advanced spell and
grammar check.... but completely breaking basic spell check?

Did I really interpret your response correctly? Does this issue need to be
redirected to the Internet Explorer team so they can repair Outlook Express?

Thanks!

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi James,

Outlook Express is part of Internet Explorer. The IE team chose not to update Outlook Express to be able to use the new English
language proofing tools introduced in Office 2007. There are a couple of 3rd party tools you can add (that folks who don't have
Office installed have used for a number of years <g>) including

A. Vampirefo Spellchecker for Outlook Express:
http://geocities.com/vampirefo/

B. Tinyspell: (has separate U.K. English module if needed)
http://tinyspell.m6.net

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<<"James" <James@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:22472415-14A5-43A6-AF9C-22FBE922BD8C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm using Windows XP and just installed Office 2007. Immediately after
installation, the default spell-check language in Outlook Express has been
changed to French. Under Tools, Options, Spelling, Language option, I now
only have French as an option. The default language in all of my Office apps
is set to English. Why did it remove English from Outlook Express and how
can I re-enable it?>>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*



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