HELP how to change spell and grammar check to new language.

[Dave Bulllar]

What is the official way?
I have gathered all the .lex and .dll files that I need to install French on
my English PC.
And after fiddling with the register I can get it to spell check BUT the
grammar check fails.

There must be a registry entry I have not discovered.
Using "Word97"
If I change a document to 'French language' when I select
tools\options\spelling and grammar then the 'grammar' section is greyed out.
If I change to English language I can then ask it to check grammar.
But if I go back to French and ask it to spell-check I get the message
'Cannot Start Grammar Check.'

Any suggestions ?

 

[Opinicus]

I have gathered all the .lex and .dll files that I need to install French
on my English PC.
And after fiddling with the register I can get it to spell check BUT the
grammar check fails.

Is this an Office-related question? If it is, you're asking in the wrong
group. If it's not, then the only place I can think of where you might want
to do spell/grammar checks in WinXP is Outlook Express. (In which case
you're also asking the question in the wrong group.)

Be that as it may, my experience with spell-checking in OE is that it's not
too brilliant when multiple languages are involved. I have the Turkish and
French proofing files installed on my system for example. Sometimes spelling
mistakes in those language are caught in OE and sometimes they are not not.
I've never used the "grammar checking" feature in Word, being
philosophically opposed to it, so I don't know whether or not it works in
OE.

Frankly for something as ephemeral as email/newsgroup messages, I think
spell-checking is overkill. If it's really an issue for you, compose the
message in Word and do a proper proofing there before sending it.