Re: Language Set To French

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I have no idea why the Vampirefo spell check is unavailable for you. The link is valid, and the spell check works fine for me.

OE never, ever had its own spell check, and you don't need Office 2003 to get a free one. No one else has posted here that they had a problem using a free download.

I don't work for MS so I can only surmise that the Office dev team, that has nothing to do with the old OE dev team, was not interested if the spell check worked for an MS product that is no longer being produced.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Don" <Don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DBD87695-4117-42E9-BA09-4E572254C90E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Vampirefo and the others that you cited are either NOT AVAILABLE or NOT
APPLICABLE. Who wants a registry fix when the problem is MSFT's inability to
provide English in America where Gates amassed $60BILLION. I dont want to
spend $400 for 2003 Office when I have the crappy 2007 Office that if
uninstalled will void my warranty and the two wont run side by side.

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

You would need an Office 2003 installation disk.

I have used the free spell check from Vampirefo for years and it works just
fine.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Don" <Don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:219866F9-0796-4C27-B98C-ADE4028C60EF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have Office 2007 on my Toshiba. How can I obtain the "Office Shared
> Features/Proofing Tools/English" from Office 2003? Is a download > available
> for the proofing tools?
>
> "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
>
>> 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 dont 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.
>> -- >> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "Dell Boy" <Dell Boy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1A4D3040-198C-4E95-AB59-34BA75357D03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a >> > Windows
>> > XP
>> > Home
>> > SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) >> > in
>> > Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible >> > to
>> > change
>> > language becasue French is selected but greyed out.
>> >
>> > The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United >> > Kingdom
>> > and
>> > English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.
>> >
>> > Can anyone give any suggestions?
>>
>>



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