Re: Spell check in OE
- From: "Alan Robinson" <alr@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:47:26 -0800
"Bob Hatch" <bobhatch@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm mostly done with a format and reinstall of all programs on my
computer. Only problem I'm having now is the spell checker in Outlook
Express is set to French. That doesn't help me a lot. I really need it to
check in English, cuz that's the language I kind of understand.
Any ideas on how to change the default language to english?
It's a known problem, Bob - Outlook Express uses the dictionary from
Office/Word, Microsoft changed the dictionary file formats for English,
Spanish, and German to a format that OE doesn't recognize when they came out
with Office 2007 - so the only dictionary that OE recognizes is French. And
if you 'upgrade' to 2007, they remove the older English, Spanish, and German
files in the process. See Microsoft's (non)-explanation at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974 - of course, they don't offer a
solution. Googling 'outlook express spellcheck in french only' will give you
a bunch of hits which boil down to two possible solutions: download/install
english dictionary files in a format that OE recognizes from any of several
third-party sources, or - if you have the original disks for it - install
JUST the 'proofing' components from Office 2003 (which will include the
files you need).
Alan
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