UK English spell checker.

[Dave]

Windows Mail only has the 4 languages, Windows Live Mail has 37.
Windows 7 doesn't affect this issue, as it comes with no email program.
If you want a free program, Windows Live Mail or Mozilla Thunderbird should
suffice.


--
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview
http://download.live.com/wlmail

If I understand this correctly, I cannot get a UK English spellchecker on
Windows Mail - all I can do is keep adding UK spellings of words to the US
dictionary, but I can't stop US spellings coming out as correct. If I was
French or Spanish I could get Mail to spell check in my own language, but
as
I'm English I can't.

As for moving to Windows Live Mail as a solution, this seems like an
intrusive marketing plan to encourage takeup of LiveMail in the UK.

Can anyone tell me if this problem is fixed with Windows 7, or still an
issue?

 

[Gary VanderMolen \(MS MVP\)]

Since Windows Live Mail is free, I don't understand your objection
to upgrading to it. Windows Mail was dropped from Microsoft
development in July 2006, so in computer terms it is a dinosaur.

--
Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/profile/vandermolen

If I understand this correctly, I cannot get a UK English spellchecker on
Windows Mail - all I can do is keep adding UK spellings of words to the US
dictionary, but I can't stop US spellings coming out as correct. If I was
French or Spanish I could get Mail to spell check in my own language, but as
I'm English I can't.

As for moving to Windows Live Mail as a solution, this seems like an
intrusive marketing plan to encourage takeup of LiveMail in the UK.

Can anyone tell me if this problem is fixed with Windows 7, or still an issue?

 

[hodroyd]

I have the same problem, NO ENGLISH ENGLISH, just Amercan English. Half the
world use ENGLISH ENGLISH, but not Microsoft. An ENGLISH dictionary surely is
available on some software somewhere, can Microsoft not make programs that
the world can use correctly, or had they not thought of that? Pay your money,
get screwed, laughable in this day and age. Anybody got any ideas??

 

[mac]

I have the same problem, NO ENGLISH ENGLISH, just Amercan English. Half the
world use ENGLISH ENGLISH, but not Microsoft. An ENGLISH dictionary surely
is
available on some software somewhere, can Microsoft not make programs that
the world can use correctly, or had they not thought of that? Pay your
money,
get screwed, laughable in this day and age. Anybody got any ideas??

Do what most people do, use the Add button on the spell-check window for
words you know are correct and spelled differently from them over the pond?
neighbour, colour etc

 

[Gary VanderMolen [MVP]]

The proper solution is to upgrade to Windows Live Mail, which has spell check
for 37 languages, including UK English.

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[hodroyd]

Gary, Thank you for the input. "Windows Mail, the next step up from Outlook
Express" is how Microsoft portrayed Mail and yet it no spell check as such.
Now we have to change again to Live Mail? Why not just get it right first
time around, we do not all have the time to keep fiddling about with software
issues, just so that we can get email.

 

[hodroyd]

Steve, thanks for the input, have naturally done that more than once, but we
should not have to. Microsoft should get these things right first time, the
dictionaries are available in other MS software.

 

[Dave]

IMO, WM seemed to have been slapped together so MSFT would have an email
program to accompany Vista when it was released. WLM seems to be the
intended replacement for OE, but it wasn't ready when Vista was released.


--
Dave N.
MS-MVP (Mail)
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Gary VanderMolen [MVP]]

The world of software is in a constant state of flux. The sooner you
accept that, and roll with the punches, the better off you will be.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Except what is the benefit in this situation? email is the same. The only
benefit is that Microsoft gets to charge us money to upgrade operating
systems. Certainly people are not benefiting from an improved email client
when the upgrade beyond XP, but Microsoft does charge us money to get
improvements, even when we can't use the improvements or don't want them. We
must pay in order to get other improvements that we need. It is especially
frustrating when they require the purchase of newer versions of software to
get fixes to previous problems, and they do do that.

The world of software is in a constant state of flux. The sooner
you accept that, and roll with the punches, the better off you will be.

 

[Gary VanderMolen [MVP]]

Which money charges are you objecting to, such as when upgrading
from XP to Windows 7?
When you exchange your still running 2001 automobile for a new 2010
model, do you complain about having to pay money for it, even though
you may not use all the improvements in the newer model?

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Instead of comparing software to automobiles that does get old, it is more
appropriate to compare computer software to other software such as music and
movies. We can purchase those and they don't need to be upgraded. Computer
software might need revision due to other changes external to them, but
otherwise they forever continue to work as good as new.

In the context of this discussion, email has not changed, so I can
understand hodroyd's frustration of being forced to adjust to changes that
are not necessary.



Which money charges are you objecting to, such as when upgrading
from XP to Windows 7?
When you exchange your still running 2001 automobile for a new 2010
model, do you complain about having to pay money for it, even though
you may not use all the improvements in the newer model?

 

[Gary VanderMolen [MVP]]

But unlike a music CD or movie DVD, email software is not a static,
standalone product. It needs an operating system, and many 'helper'
utilities (such as printer drivers) to make it function with the degree of
utility that we expect of it. Over the years, "what we expect of it" changes,
such as the ability to render HTML. Also, the operating system and helper
utilities have to change over time. Nothing in the computer world is static.

 

[Sam Hobbs]

I disagree. I think some of what Microsoft does is like what stock brokers
do or have done in the past that was called churning; getting customers to
buy and sell so the broker gets more commissions. I think that a lot of what
Microsoft does is done to get additional sales. As a software developer, I
support the idea of payment for services, but I think Microsoft takes
advantage of the situation.

I wish we could discuss this further, but I do not want to dwell on
something in this group that most people don't care about or that is only
remotely related to Windows Mail. You provide so much of your time helping
so many people that you certainly are entitled to dwell on it if you want
to, but I will try to move off this subject.


But unlike a music CD or movie DVD, email software is not a static,
standalone product. It needs an operating system, and many 'helper'
utilities (such as printer drivers) to make it function with the degree of
utility that we expect of it. Over the years, "what we expect of it"
changes,
such as the ability to render HTML. Also, the operating system and helper
utilities have to change over time. Nothing in the computer world is static.