Re: Outlook Express 6 Spelling Checking

Office 2007 breaks OE's spell check. Downloading a free spell check is the simplest way around this.

Some free spell check programs.

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

TinySpell:
http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ (Checks the spelling as you type).

Or from this blog:
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80

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.


a.. Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that shipped in prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). There are a number of changes in this new version, but the one that is causing this problem is that Outlook Express doesn't understand the new English Proofing Tools. This is a problem because Outlook Express has never shipped with its own proofing tools but has used the ones shipped by Office.
b.. There are a few scenarios in which you won't run into this problem:
a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you don't manually uninstall the earlier version of Office.
b.. A configuration in which Office 2003 (or earlier) has not been removed.
For example, I have Office 2003 still on both of my computers, and I still have English in Outlook Express.
c.. The workaround for this problem is to install the English dictionary from Office 2003 (or Office XP). There should be no need to install all of Office just the dictionary. The English Proofing Tools can be found in the Custom Install tree under Office Shared Features|Proofing Tools|English.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
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"Sid" <sfincher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OCzUxCNdHHA.4720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a similar problem. I just upgraded to MS Office 2007 and now my outlook express is spell checking in French. When I go to outlook options > Spelling it says French in the selected language in the pull down list. There is no English option there to select.

I checked the language selection for the Word 2007 and it is in English, so I have no idea what happened.

Do you think it would work for me to delete the CSAPI3T1.DLL and reinstall it?

Sid

"Paul Kefford" <pakman36@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23sA6qy7bHHA.4716@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have been using OE 6 for ages and used to have the 'Spelling' tab visible, used to check all my Emails before send for 'typos' etc.

Over the last few months the 'Spelling' tab has become 'greyed' out, not able to use it. I have been informed that it's dependent on MS Word being available as the text program, I have never had MS Word, but always 'Open Office' now Version 2.0 that has the capability to save as as .doc file.

Does anyone know of why this function has recently disappeared or how to get it back again?

I have looked in the 'Tools, Options' but cannot see anything?

Kind Regards

Paul Kefford




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