Office 2007 and dictionary for Outlook Express 6

[T. Smith]

Hi there,

After install of Office 2007 to our group via SMS we notice Outlook Express
users no longer have an english dictionary... French is there, but no
english...

Is this by design or a bug??? Seems odd to take out English dictionary,
and leave the French one...

Can anyone recommend a good 3rd party spell checker for outlook Express, or
is there a fix for this from MS??

I guess we could tell everyone that all email correspondence now has to be
in French... ;o)

Cheers!

 

[JoAnn Paules]

There's a bug - and a known one at that. If you search the archives of this
group (or others) I'm sure you'll find the way to fix it. (Offhand I don't
know because I no longer use OE.)

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi T.,

The 'French only' speller occurs in MS Internet Explorer's email/news client, Outlook Express, which isn't a part of Office and
never had
its own spell check capability.

The English language proofing tools in Office 2007 are new and include some context spelling error capabilities, however the
Windows/Internet Explorer teams have chosen to not update (at least not yet <g>) Outlook Express to recognize the new Office 2007
English language Proofing Tools.
There are a number of 3rd party add-ins for Outlook Express that folks without Office have used and they should work in Outlook
Express as well.

Here are a couple that folks have reported work for them. The 2nd one has links to spellers for other than U.S. English (although
with some qualifications).

A. Vampirefo Spellchecker for Outlook Express:
http://geocities.com/vampirefo/

B. Tinyspell: (has separate U.K. English module if needed)
http://tinyspell.m6.net

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Hi there,

After install of Office 2007 to our group via SMS we notice Outlook Express
users no longer have an english dictionary... French is there, but no
english...

Is this by design or a bug??? Seems odd to take out English dictionary,
and leave the French one...

Can anyone recommend a good 3rd party spell checker for outlook Express, or
is there a fix for this from MS??

I guess we could tell everyone that all email correspondence now has to be
in French... ;o)

Cheers! >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*