Re: Spell checker problem

Thanks to you and the others for your prompt replies. It boggles the mind
that Microsoft appears unable or unwilling to do anything about this problem!
Have a good day...

"Anna" wrote:


"rosebowl41" <rosebowl41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What did you finally use for the best results??? Thanks....

"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


Gordon & rosebowl41...
It's really an incredible situation. The problem is well-known and stems
from the fact in that the problem arises after the user installs the MS
Office 2007 program and continues to use Outlook Express as his/her mail
program. Now the user finds that the spell check function in OE brings up a
French dictionary (although I have heard of at least one user who reported a
German dictionary!) so that the spell check function in OE becomes useless
for English-speaking users.

There's been a whole series of articles published on the net re this problem
and all sorts of explanations as to why MS has failed to correct this
situation knowing full well the problem exists.

In any event, the common workaround that many, if most users have found is
to use a (free) third-party spell checking program (in English!) - Spell
Checker for OE 2.1. (There are others). It seems to work fine based on the
experience I & others have had with it. A fair number of websites carry the
program for download - one of them being...
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952 which seems to be a reliable
source.
Anna



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