Re: Language Set To French

Third party spell checkers like spell.exe make OE unresponsive (frozen) when
attempting a spell check and required removal via Add/Remove. Vampiero did
the same. The other "tinyspell" page was unavailable and the pschmidt did not
even address the issue. What next? I found Dell's CD's on Office 2003 that
came with my computer whose OS was destroyed by viruses. In the mess of
trying to salvage data and continue my business I had to get a Toshiba as
they were the only ones selling new laptops with XP Pro. 5 of my critical
programs will NOT run on Vista. this forced me to accept Office Pro 2007
which I hate and it's files cannot be read by anyone unless they have 2007.
Is there a way for a novice to extract the necessary spell checker out of
Office 2003 without putting my OS and Office 2007 at risk?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you Bruce for you quick reply - I do really appreciate it.

Let me restate what I feel the issue is. Outlook Express may have been
replaced - I do not know - on Windows Vista with something else, or even
eliminated. But XP did ship up until recently as Vista has been on the
market a year? Not sure. Regardless, OE6 is a part of the Windows XP
package
- Office 2007 is said to be "compatible" with Windows XP, and now my wife
and
kids have only a French dictionary for the Spellcheck function of OE. Now
whether the spellcheck function is technically built into OE or it is
borrowing from Word, I don't know - but I do know that OE has a big button
when you create a new message that is for spellchecking... We had
originally
had Office 2000 and it worked - our HDD crashed so we installed all new,
but
Office 2007 instead. Now only French in OE. It sounds like I may be just
out-of-luck, but my computer is only 4 years old so this is not a 12 year
old
problem for the consumers. I feel strongly that due to the wide use of OE
it
is appropriate for MS to address this with an update...

Mike

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

Outlook Express has /never/ come with a spell check. The OE and Outlook
development teams used to collaborate, but since there is no longer an OE
team, as OE will never be produced again, WYSIWYG.

MS needs to fix this, like YESTERDAY!!!?????<

I have never used an MS Office program and have always relied on a third
party spell check.

There will never be any more updates to OE except for security issues.
This
issue should have been addressed 12 years ago to add a spell check to OE
without having to purchase an Office product.

Why didn't anyone complain then?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Mike" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have this same problem with the French only dictionary - does anyone
else
think this is just unacceptable? I am more than happy to install an
update
or patch of Windows Update - there have been countless updates for all
sorts
of obscure reasons, but I should not have to search the net for
questionable
third party add-ons for something as simple as spellchecking my e-mail
on
a
program as common and current as Outlook Express!!! It's spellchecking
for
Pete's sake! I have Windows XP Home, SP2 with Office 2007 - OE worked
before
for us... now it doesn't. Never owned Off2003, and I certainly will
not
buy
it now. MS needs to fix this, like YESTERDAY!!!

"Don" wrote:

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.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Don" <Don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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
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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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