Re: Spell checker problem

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What, and get sued again for pushing out the little guy?

rosebowl41 wrote:

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 news:07D3A6F4-7596-4137-ACD9-4E653B781D8B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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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