Re: Spell check in OE

Lone Haranguer wrote:
Alan Robinson wrote:
"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


Better yet, give OE the boot and switch to SeaMonkey.
LZ

I've tried several other NG readers, and didn't like any, including the look
and feel of SeaMonkey. Problem is fixed, and I'm back to typing my normally
misspelled words and trusting OE to fix them.

Hope you had a great Christmas. :-)

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