Now THAT'S what I call a Real Answer.
Clear, Concise, Candid & Coherent.
DSH
Because 2007 removed the English dictionary when you installed it and
the
French dictionary remained (North American copies of Office ship with
English & French for sure, and I think Spanish as well).
Explanation:
After installing Office 2007 RTM, you don't have English as a choice
of
language in the spell checker of Outlook Express and potentially other
programs.
* Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that
shipped
in prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). There are a
number
of changes in this new version, but the one that is causing this
problem
is that Outlook Express doesn't understand the new English Proofing
Tools.
This is a problem because Outlook Express has never shipped with its
own
proofing tools but has used the ones shipped by Office.
* There are a few scenarios in which you won't run into this
problem:
o An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM
if
you don't manually uninstall the earlier version of Office.
o A configuration in which Office 2003 (or earlier) has not
been
removed.
For example, I have Office 2003 still on both of my
computers,
and I still have English in Outlook Express.
* The workaround for this problem is to install the English
dictionary
from Office 2003 (or Office XP). There should be no need to install
all of
Office just the dictionary. The English Proofing Tools can be found in
the
Custom Install tree under 'Office Shared Features|Proofing
Tools|English'.
Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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Office 2007 RTM Issues:
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Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
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http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In:
http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
OneNote 2007:
http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
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This still does not answer my question.
In an all English install of Windows XP, Office, IE etc ...
Why, after doing a clean install of Office 2007 does the dictionary
for
Outlook Express become French and no ability to select another one
???
