Re: Spell check in OE
- From: Lone Haranguer <linuszrv@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:19:55 -0700
Alan Robinson wrote:
"Bob Hatch" <bobhatch@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:00478a18$0$19047$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxBetter yet, give OE the boot and switch to SeaMonkey.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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