Outlook Express 6 Dictionary is French! Where's UK Gone?

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Bryan Bellis

Hi Folks - Using Win XP Home, all upgrades installed. One computer,
several family logons. I use Office 2007 with Outlook 2007. My wife's
logon, she uses Outlook Express 6.

For reasons completely beyond me her UK dictionary has gone, replaced
by the French dictionary. So all her spell check does is bring up
errors of wrong spelling (OK, it would, eh, offering French as it
does!).

My Outlook 2007 correctly shows the UK dictionary, but my wife's
Outlook Express 6 only offers French.

I've checked the language settings for her logon, and all seem OK
(UK). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Outlook Express 6, all
to no avail.

Short of formatting the drive and starting over, anyone one with any
ideas please?
 
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Patrick Schmid [MVP]

Yes, Office 2007 removed the dictionary that OE6 was using. From my RTM
issues page:
* 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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