UK English Spelling

[Pixie]

How can I change the spell check to check UK English spelling? At the moment
it appears only to check American English.............very irritating!

 

[mac]

How can I change the spell check to check UK English spelling? At the
moment
it appears only to check American English.............very irritating!

Sadly, UK spell check is not available in WM, simply add the words to your
custom dictionary that WE spell correctly, like neighbour and colour etc.

Eventually we get to a situation where the 'mercans' do not rule the World
)

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you upgrade to Windows Live Mail (WLM), it has an easy fix for
adding UK English spell checking:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Questions pertaining to WLM should be posted here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[Earle Horton]

Sadly, UK spell check is not available in WM, simply add the words to your
custom dictionary that WE spell correctly, like neighbour and colour etc.

Eventually we get to a situation where the 'mercans' do not rule the World
)

It will just be someone else, the Chinese perhaps. See how much you like
that. oþ

Windows mail uses (I think) proofing tools installed in C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\PROOF. This is the location used by
Office prior to Office 2007. If you have a copy of Office 2003, for
example, you -should- be able to install your UK proofing tools or copy the
PROOF directory from some other computer where you have it installed to your
Vista computer. Office 2007 proofing tools do not work with Windows Mail.

If someone has the temerity to try this, please report back here how it
works. You're better off taking the suggestion to use Windows Live Mail
instead, because several people have got (gotten?) UK spell check working
properly with that program (programme?)

Cheers,

Earle

 

[El.Plates]

If you upgrade to Windows Live Mail (WLM), it has an easy fix for
adding UK English spell checking:
http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

Questions pertaining to WLM should be posted here:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

Still begs the question why this product gets so many enquiries as to how to
find UK English. To go a stage further shouldn't UK English merely be
English and all other versions be optional prefixed and hidden

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I wouldn't point you to Windows Live Mail if Windows Mail had
UK English spell checking available.

Microsoft ran out of development time for Windows Mail when they
wanted to release Vista, so only US English was included.
When new MS products are in beta testing, typically only US versions
are initially available, with other languages added later on.

 

[Pixie]

Thanks for the replies. My head is now aching!!!!!!!! What should be such a
simple request for my home tongue to be easily spell checked is turning out
to be a problem!
Where do I find the "Custom Dictionary"?
I have found so many "glitches" with this Windows Vista I yearn to return to
Windows XP.
I am going to go and lie down in a darkened room and try again tomorrow.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who answered.

Pixie

 

[mac]

Thanks for the replies. My head is now aching!!!!!!!! What should be such
a
simple request for my home tongue to be easily spell checked is turning
out
to be a problem!
Where do I find the "Custom Dictionary"?
I have found so many "glitches" with this Windows Vista I yearn to return
to
Windows XP.
I am going to go and lie down in a darkened room and try again tomorrow.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who answered.

Pixie

You do not need to find the Dictionary, just use the Add button option on
the spell checker when it questions your spelling of Colour etc to add our
spelling to the dictionary.

 

[Pixie]

Mac

Absolute magic.........thanks so much. Easy when you know how.
Now I am going to try to sort out all the other anomolies!! Might take some
time.

Again thanks very much for your help.

 

[mac]

Mac

Absolute magic.........thanks so much. Easy when you know how.
Now I am going to try to sort out all the other anomolies!! Might take
some
time.

Again thanks very much for your help.

We are always here, maybe because we have nothing better to do?

)

 

[Morton]

How can I change the spell check to check UK English spelling? At the moment
it appears only to check American English.............very irritating!

Winston Churchill, whose mother was American, famously wrote that, "The
United States and England are separated by the same language." Is it
really necessary to bring all sorts of flag-waving comments into this
discourse? Windows is, after all, an American product, and imperfect
though it may be, it has helped to tie the world together. Why should
"color" vs. "colour" be so irritating to you? Have you nothing else at
all to irritate you, you lucky person you.

Morton
USA

 

[mac]

Winston Churchill, whose mother was American, famously wrote that, "The
United States and England are separated by the same language." Is it
really necessary to bring all sorts of flag-waving comments into this
discourse? Windows is, after all, an American product, and imperfect
though it may be, it has helped to tie the world together. Why should
"color" vs. "colour" be so irritating to you? Have you nothing else at all
to irritate you, you lucky person you.

Morton
USA

Hi Morton, "Pixie" never mentioned Colour, he asked how to enable the
English (UK) spull chuck.

I did, as an example, of how you lot can't spull proper, like we do in the
Mother Country )

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Still begs the question why this product gets so many enquiries as to how
to find UK English. To go a stage further shouldn't UK English merely be
English and all other versions be optional prefixed and hidden

"Should" has nothing to do with it.

 

[DavidAtCaspian]

The point being that MS charges a LOT more in the UK for these products, and
uses the excuse that support is more costly in the UK than anywhere else in
the unvierse.

So having paid a huge premium, we get the some product as those in the USA,
with no attempt whatsoever to spell things properly.


Yes we all have our pet hates: mine are "gotten", which has only one known
proper use - Ill gotten gains.

"burglarised" = the word is burgled. You get burgled by a burglar who goes
out burgling.


The fact is that with windows mail, allowing access to a real english
dictionary is in fact extremaly easy to do, MS just couldn't be arsed.


So another item to my list of things I hate about vista I suppose.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you upgrade to Windows Live Mail (WLM), there is an easy fix to enable
UK spell checking.

http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

For additional questions or advice about WLM, post in its newsgroup:

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...dg=microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

 

[Earle Horton]

"English dictionary" with "English" capitalized, or capitalised, whatever.
"Extremely", not "extremaly". You really do need this feature more than I
do. {þ

Most people I know have gotten Vista as part of a computer/OS package, so
the computer manufacturer actually pays for the support, and does much of
the price gouging. Don't blame MS alone for your high prices. Someone on
your side of the Atlantic has gotten their hands on a big piece of it.

It's worse than you think. I looked into providing an English (UK)
dictionary for Windows Mail, and while continuing to use the same
dictionary, MS changed the file format, making this impossible unless I get
some inside info.

Cheers,

Earle

 

[Peter]

They could produce dozens of language packs for Ultimate and not any more
languages for the WM dictionary...shame!

(..& what the heck is "Spanish - International Sort" ? ) Very amateurish if
you ask me.

 

[Earle Horton]

Is that true? I would assume that any localized version of Windows would
have a localized mail program. How about Windows Live Mail, the supposed
replacement for Windows Mail? That has five languages available in the U.S.
version, but from the complaints in the WLM newsgroup there aren't any more
languages than that. It looks to me, if spell checking is a feature that
you need, then Outlook is the only Microsoft solution that "really" works.

Spanish has supposedly sixty-five dialects, and two (?) sort orders. Since
the spelling is darn near phonetic, there isn't any real difference, say
between lunfardohispano and chicano as far as word spelling goes. (These
are real dialects, not the nation-state based ones included in Windows,
heh.) The sorting issue depends on the digraphs "ll", "rr" and "ch". Feel
free to correct me if I missed one or two. These are considered "letters"
in classical Spanish, and words are sorted according to an alphabetical
order that includes them as such. In "International Sort" I believe that
they are considered two letters each, and sorted accordingly, although
phonetically they are still considered letters by Hispanophones.

Earle

 

[Peter]

We don't even get the chance to use Word for spell checking. I'm in Canada
and we use British spelling for the most part so it's a question of having
WM remember every new word that has two or more ways of being spelled.

 

[Earle Horton]

This can be fixed in Windows Live Mail. Download the program from
http://get.live.com and see the solutions in the
microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop discussion group. You have to
fiddle with some folders and a (small) configuration file, but it is well
worth. People have also got/gotten Dutch, Danish and Portuguese to work. I
believe that UK and Canada are both supported. They're in the dictionary,
but there is no way to get at them from WM.

Earle