Signature Auto-add Kills Spell Check in Outlook New Message

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as the email editor

When I set a signature to auto-add for a new mail message, it also stops
the spelling check for new messages. If I look in Outlook, the New
Message window > Tools > Language > Set Language > the box, "Do not
check spelling and grammar" is checked.

Depending on where I place the insertion cursor, this box is checked or
unchecked.

If I place the insertion cursor *below* the signature and then look at
the box, it's unchecked. But if I place the insertion cursor anywhere
else, in the sig or above, the box is checked.

According to Diane Poremsky, a MS MVP, there's a style Word uses with
the sigs, and it has spelling check disabled. In my case, this style
apparently affects the area above and in the signature both.

If I set <none> for the default signature, then in the New Message
window >Tools > Language > Set Language > the box, "Do not check
spelling and grammar" is not checked.

I can, of course, use a default sig, and then when I start a message,
manually uncheck the "Do not check spelling and grammar" box. But I
really shouldn't have to do this, but this is actually what I do.

So how do I use a default sig, but still be able to have (by default) an
area above the sig with a style that has Spell Check enabled?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Please visit the Outlook experts in the Outlook newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
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| Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as the email editor
|
| When I set a signature to auto-add for a new mail message, it also stops
| the spelling check for new messages. If I look in Outlook, the New
| Message window > Tools > Language > Set Language > the box, "Do not
| check spelling and grammar" is checked.
|
| Depending on where I place the insertion cursor, this box is checked or
| unchecked.
|
| If I place the insertion cursor *below* the signature and then look at
| the box, it's unchecked. But if I place the insertion cursor anywhere
| else, in the sig or above, the box is checked.
|
| According to Diane Poremsky, a MS MVP, there's a style Word uses with
| the sigs, and it has spelling check disabled. In my case, this style
| apparently affects the area above and in the signature both.
|
| If I set <none> for the default signature, then in the New Message
| window >Tools > Language > Set Language > the box, "Do not check
| spelling and grammar" is not checked.
|
| I can, of course, use a default sig, and then when I start a message,
| manually uncheck the "Do not check spelling and grammar" box. But I
| really shouldn't have to do this, but this is actually what I do.
|
| So how do I use a default sig, but still be able to have (by default) an
| area above the sig with a style that has Spell Check enabled?
|
| --
| )|||(__Nehmo__)|||(

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

add -- as the top line of your sig so you can see where the sig starts and
type above it.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

 

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

- Nehmo -
The sig was already occupying the top line. But I added -- above it
anyway. Nothing changed.

I'm definitely out of the sig when I'm above it. The context
(rightclick) menu I get there is not the one for the sig.

I've been making occasional, but serious, efforts to solve this for
months. I'm making another attempt now. I have a feeling it may go
unsolved until I get the next version of Office, or until I get Vista
when it comes out comes out.

- Diane Poremsky [MVP] -

 

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

- Carey Frisch [MVP] -

Please visit the Outlook experts in the Outlook newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general

- Nehmo -
I crossposted to that and everyplace else I could think of already. And
I've asked the same question, reworded a bit, twice before too.

Do you know of any place else?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It should work - as long as you are out of the sig block and don't have
spell check disabled. Have you tried deleting the normal.dot template? Spell
check preferences are stored in it.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

 

[nehmo54]

Well, I solved the problem. However, I did it when I was so sleepy,
that I don't remember exactly what I did. When I figure it out, I
report back. (I've learned otheres have the same problem.)

But I can now add that during the problem, in Word, File > New > gave a
doc with spelling-check enabled. Because of that, I thought Normal.dot
wasn't the problem.