AND SPELL CHECK, Office Home and Student 2007
This suite was acquired, bought, to reinstall my spell check but alas the
language used is FRENCH. Come on Microsoft you can do better and if not give
me my money back.
FRENCH you gotta be kidding and no I am not
First: This is not the proper venue for problems with MS Outlook Express. MS
Outlook is a totally different application than MS Outlook Express.
Second: MS Outlook Express never had a spell checker; it always "borrowed"
the spell checker from other MS applications, such MS Office, or MS Works.
When I set up my old HP Pavilion 6745C, with Windows Me, HP had included the
MS Works 2000 suite, and MS Outlook Express was able to utilize the spell
checker. But, when I set up my new HP Pavilion m7590n, HP had included MS
Works 8,0, and that application spell checker is not compatible with MS
Outlook Express. And, when I set up an eMachines T2240 for a little girl,
whose parents had handed it down after getting a new computer for
themselves, there was no MS office suite at all, and MS Outlook Express does
not even have spell check capability on that computer.
MS Outlook Express was developed by a different internal MSFT group than MS
Office. MS Outlook Express has not been under development for around two
years. The MS Office development team is under no obligation to ensure that
their product maintains compatibility with applications which "borrow" its
features.
For those reasons, you either need an older version of the MS Office install
discs, no later than MS Office 2003, and install only the proofing tools, or
you need to find a third party add-in on the Internet. There are several. I
have not kept track because I learned how to get the MS Works proofing tools
off of the old WinMe system, and hack the registry to make it work on the
latest computer. I'd have to research what I did; I did not write down the
steps I took. I think I'd just go with one of the free tools if I had to do
it over again.
