Outlook Express thinks I'm in France

[Ed in Seattle]

OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French dictionary. When I
looked under Tools>Options, that was the only language that was offered as a
choice.

How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary for spell
checking?

Ed Presson

 

[Nepatsfan]

In

OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French
dictionary. When I looked under Tools>Options, that was the
only language that
was offered as a choice.

How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary
for spell
checking?

Ed Presson

First off, Outlook Express does not include a built-in spell
checker. It uses the one supplied with Microsoft Office. See if
this article applies to your situation.

You no longer have spell checking capabilities in some
languages in Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the 2007
Microsoft Office system
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974

You can also get around this issue by installing the Proofing
Tools from a previous version of Office. That's the route I
took since I had a copy of Office 2003.

If you haven't done so already you might want to post your
question to the Outlook Express newsgroup. Someone their might
have a better solution.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Clark]

OE, I've discovered, checks my spelling using a French dictionary. When I
looked under Tools>Options, that was the only language that was offered as
a choice.

How can I get Outlook Express to use an English dictionary for spell
checking?

Ed Presson

Your outta luck, and you now have to move to France.

(I think the other reply is your answer)

Clark

 

[Gordon]

In

First off, Outlook Express does not include a built-in spell checker. It
uses the one supplied with Microsoft Office. See if this article applies
to your situation.

You no longer have spell checking capabilities in some languages in
Outlook Express 6.0 after you install the 2007 Microsoft Office system
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974

You can also get around this issue by installing the Proofing Tools from a
previous version of Office. That's the route I took since I had a copy of
Office 2003.

If you haven't done so already you might want to post your question to the
Outlook Express newsgroup. Someone their might have a better solution.

They won't - those are the only solutions....and as OE has been superceded
first by Windows Mail and now by Windows Live Mail there probably won't be a
fix - like there won't be a fix for links in OE opening in a new window not
a new tab in IE7....PITA! (Works in Firefox.....go figure....)

 

[Peter Foldes]

Ed

Installed Office 2007 by any chance. Office 2007 breaks the OE spell check

Best way around this is to install a 3rd party spellcheck program.


From Bruce Hagen MS-MVP OE

snip<

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 don't 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.