UK English Spell Checker?

[Victor Delta]

Can anyone tell me please if it possible to enable Vista's Windows Mail to
spell check in UK English instead of the US variety? Can't believe it only
works with the four languages shown? Never a problem in OE.

I have Office XP installed. Is is perhaps possible to make Windows Mail use
the existing Microsoft UK dictionary and my own existing custom.dic?

TIA

V

 

[Dave]

Only the 4 languages were provided.
You should be able to open your other dictionary and copy the contents to
the Windows Mail one.

My Word dictionary is located at
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proof\Cutom.dic

The Windows Mail dictionary is located at
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Mail\UserDictionary.lex

Both are regular text files, so you should be able to cut and paste.

 

[Victor Delta]

Only the 4 languages were provided.
You should be able to open your other dictionary and copy the contents to
the Windows Mail one.

My Word dictionary is located at
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proof\Cutom.dic

The Windows Mail dictionary is located at
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Mail\UserDictionary.lex

Both are regular text files, so you should be able to cut and paste.

Thanks Dave - that at least will help a bit.

However, after all the years and $$$$ of development, and based on the
starting point of OE, I simply can't believe that MS only came up with four
languages! Amazing.

Perhaps Vista's SP1 will include other dictionaries?

V

 

[Dave]

Some of us suspect that MS just threw Windows Mail together just to get it
out the door.
They have recently released a beta version called Windows Live Mail, which I
suspect is/will be their main focus.
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Some of us suspect that MS just threw Windows Mail together just to get it
out the door.

They say they are starting to work on WinMail again. Haven't seen any
results yet, though, and a lot of the fixes in WLM should be pretty easy to
port over.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Victor Delta shared these words of wisdom

However, after all the years and $$$$ of development, and based on the
starting point of OE, I simply can't believe that MS only came up
with four languages! Amazing.

What's even far more absurd:
WM uses it's own proofing system even if Office2007 is installed on the
machine.

I simply can not understand why there is not at least an *option* to
use Office dictionaries (as Outlook Express had as the default).

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom

They say they are starting to work on WinMail again. Haven't seen any
results yet, though, and a lot of the fixes in WLM should be pretty
easy to port over.

Is there a forum somewhere (like those in Connect) for discussions on
the bugs and shortcomings of WM (which IMHO is not too bad!).

Rainald

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom


Is there a forum somewhere (like those in Connect) for discussions on
the bugs and shortcomings of WM (which IMHO is not too bad!).

This is it. Where have you been?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The problem with this is that the custom dictionary is only checked if the
word is not found in the standard dictionary. So, if a UK user types
"color" instead of "colour", it will never be flagged.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom


Is there a forum somewhere (like those in Connect) for discussions on
the bugs and shortcomings of WM (which IMHO is not too bad!).

This is the only public newsgroup on WM I know of.

 

[Guest]

This is the only public newsgroup on WM I know of.

 

[Guest]

Every time we call MSN they say the new Vista is coming soon with English
Spellchecker. That has been 3 months now I call every 2 weeks. What burns me
is that I just bought Vista in January, now I have to but it again to get the
spell checker in English.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Every time we call MSN they say the new Vista is coming soon with English
Spellchecker. That has been 3 months now I call every 2 weeks. What burns
me
is that I just bought Vista in January, now I have to but it again to get
the
spell checker in English.

I don't know where you get that idea.
I'm sure any updates will be available free to anyone.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Frank. Folks at my job have this idea that it is not a vista upgrade
you can do on your PC. But one you have to purchase. Be interesting to see
what happens.