I cannot spellcheck in outlook express with office97

[mems.mickHO]

WinXP pro and Office97 installation will not spellcheck in Outlook Express why?

 

[Bob I]

Your version of OE isn't compatible with 97

 

[LVTravel]

Sure it is. Have it on a couple of my machines right now.

To the OP, can you run spell check in Word or Excel? If not, the feature is
not installed in Office 97 and you will need to install it. If it works
there but not in Outlook Express there is apparently something that is not
registered properly.

Here are some web sites that may help you fix the problem (caution about
downloading anything that says it is a fix or the file as an .exe file.)

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/spellcheck.htm (download from Michael's
site should be OK)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224176

http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_010.html

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_oe.htm#xp_spell_checker

http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/ (run a good antivirus on this
download although should be good.)

 

[chaser]

Sure it is. Have it on a couple of my machines right now.

To the OP, can you run spell check in Word or Excel? If not, the feature is
not installed in Office 97 and you will need to install it. If it works
there but not in Outlook Express there is apparently something that is not
registered properly.

Here are some web sites that may help you fix the problem (caution about
downloading anything that says it is a fix or the file as an .exe file.)

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/spellcheck.htm (download from Michael's
site should be OK)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224176

http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_010.html

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_oe.htm#xp_spell_checker

http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/ (run a good antivirus on this
download although should be good.)


This is detailed and helpful but does NOT cover the KB932974 situation, in which, having installed Office 97, I find myself able to spell check perfectly in OE so long as I write my email in French! In suggesting a third party spell checker as a solution, Microsoft is being neither constructive nor professional, in my view.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Chaser,

I'm assuming you have installed Office 2007 rather than Office 97? The spelling tools from Office 97 should work with Outlook
Express, although there is occasionally a registry key that gets set that turns them off.

MS Outlook Express is a part of MS Internet Explorer. It has never been provided with its own MS Spell check capability, but did
hook into the older Office proofing tools if available. Folks who didn't have Office have pretty much relied on the 3rd party
products for a number of years.

The Explorer team hasn't yet, and may not, updated the older Outlook Express product to hook into the new contextual spelling
proofing tools that were put into Office 2007 to replace the older tools.

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This is detailed and helpful but does NOT cover the KB932974 situation, in which, having installed Office 97, I find myself able to
spell check perfectly in OE so long as I write my email in French! In suggesting a third party spell checker as a solution,
Microsoft is being neither constructive nor professional, in my view. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[chaser]

Hi Chaser,

I'm assuming you have installed Office 2007 rather than Office 97? The spelling tools from Office 97 should work with Outlook
Express, although there is occasionally a registry key that gets set that turns them off.

MS Outlook Express is a part of MS Internet Explorer. It has never been provided with its own MS Spell check capability, but did
hook into the older Office proofing tools if available. Folks who didn't have Office have pretty much relied on the 3rd party
products for a number of years.

The Explorer team hasn't yet, and may not, updated the older Outlook Express product to hook into the new contextual spelling
proofing tools that were put into Office 2007 to replace the older tools.

===============
This is detailed and helpful but does NOT cover the KB932974 situation, in which, having installed Office 97, I find myself able to
spell check perfectly in OE so long as I write my email in French! In suggesting a third party spell checker as a solution,
Microsoft is being neither constructive nor professional, in my view. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*


Many thanks for this, Bob.

Yes, it was Office Ultimate 2007 which "turned off" my spell checker!
I just find it rather irritating that following this installation, I find
myself left with a setup which continues to spell check perfectly, but in the
French language only!