Re: Spell checker problem

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Antares 531 wrote:
I just went through the experience of a hard drive failure and when I got a new hard drive installed and my system back alive I found that Outlook Express won't do a spell check. The spell check function limits me to French only, and since I don't know or use French this is of no benefit to me.

When I open Tools > Options then click on the Spelling tab I see the slot at the bottom with the words French (France) in it. The drop-down for this slot has no other languages listed.

The spell checker works okay in all my Office 2007 applicaitons, and it goes through the process of doing a spell check in Outlook Express, but calls every word misspelled because it doesn't match any words in the French spell checker dictionary.

I'm using Windows XP Pro SP 2 and MS Office 2007 along with a few other programs such as Adobe Photo Shop. All these programs seem to be working right and Outlook Express works very well except for the spelling check problem.

Any suggestions? Thanks, Gordon



Yeah, http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird

It comes with an excellent spell check, junk mail filter and it's free. Outhouse Distress is no longer being supported by Microsoft so either use the Outlook if it came with Office 07 or Thunderbird, both of which will be supported in the future. Thunderbird will import everything from OE if you elect for it to do so during the installation.

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