Re: Spell checker problem

Nepatsfan,
Downloaded and am using Vampire....
Working fine. Thanks.
karl snooks
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"Antares 531" <gordonlrATswbell.net> wrote in message
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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


Outlook Express does not come with its own spell checker. It used the one
installed with Office. Unfortunately, Microsoft decided to remove this
feature starting with Office 2007. Take a look at these articles for more
info;

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.
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80

You no longer have spell checking capabilities in some languages in
Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the 2007
Microsoft Office system
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974

If you upgraded from Office 2003 and still have the installation media for
that version the easiest solution to
this problem is to install the Office 2003 Proofing tools. That's how I
got around this issue. You will need to perform a custom installation. The
Proofing Tools can be found under Office Shared Features.

If you don't have an Office 2003 installation CD, here are a few free
spell checkers that you may find helpful.

Vampirefo Spell Check:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952

TinySpell:
http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/

Spell Checker for OE
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spelloe.html

Spell Checker for OE 2.1
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952

If you're looking for more options or information, you might want to post
this question to the Outlook express
newsgroup.

Good luck

Nepatsfan




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