Spell Checking in Outlook Express

[Joe Covello]

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article- 308078 indicates that
spelling command is not available in Outlook Express for
Windows XP 64 bit edition.

I have Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint installed, so
the spelling checker from these programs are available to
Outlook Express.

Has anyone figured out how to get spell check to work?

I get the message " an error occurred while spelling was
being checked"

Thanks in advance for any help.

Joe Covello

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Probably the last link in your case, but check them all.

Spell Checking does not work in OE:

http://mvps.org/PracticallyNerded/OE/OE_Spell check.htm

Or:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/spellcheck.htm

And: An error occurred while the spelling was being checked or: Spell
Check was halted:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224176

 

[Joe C.]

Bruce,

Thanks for responding. Why hasn't Microsoft corrected
this problem, since they acknowledge it is a problem with
their product?
Joe C.
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[Bruce Hagen]

Couldn't say. Everyone in these newsgroups are volunteers and do not
work for MS.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Tasks time to figure these things out. Quite often, fixing one thing breaks
another. So releasing a fix that is not regression tested may not be
advantagous to the end user (In other words, it may fix the intended
problem, but it may cause new ones)..

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org