Plain-text spell check bug in Outlook2007. Spell checking not save

[Neil C]

I've only noticed a few posts about this, but it's a repeatable problem I'm
having on more than one machine. And I've see no solution anywhere...

I'm running Outlook 2007 (installed separately from a retail upgrade box,
along with Office2007 Home and Teacher, also from a retail upgrade). Both
Outlook and Office were installed as upgrades over OfficeXP.

The problem: I have my mail format set to plain text. When I compose (or
reply) to an e-mail, I have it set to automatically spell check before
sending. I write the message, press send, and the spell check dialog box
appears as it should. I select correct spellings and see them appear both in
the dialog box and in the mail window in the background. So far, so good.
After the check is completed, the message "sends" and goes into the outbox.

But if I then open the message in the outbox, or if I just send the message
and check it in the set items, I realize that none of the corrections have
been saved. The message is being sent just as it was before the final spell
check was run - including all the mistakes.

If I manually spell-check the mail (by selecting the spell-check icon in the
ribbon or quickaccess toolbar) then the changes are saved. So it's only a
problem with the final, automatic spell-check procedure.

If I change the message format to HTML or RichText, the changes ARE saved
and everything works fine. This is only a problem with Plain Text messages.

I've had Outlook2007 installed for several months and have only just noticed
this - of course I've just been trusting that the spell check was saving.
But it may be that this is a problem introduced by a recent patch (I have
been pretty aggressive about installing all the latest updates and patches).
Or maybe I've been sending horribly misspelled messages ever since I upgraded.

For now the obviously work-around is to set the format default to RichText,
but I would very much like to be able to send messages reliably in Plain
Text.

As I said, this is happening on all my systems (XP Home and XP Pro).

Any ideas?

 

[hopberni]

I have exactly the same problem. I've only had Outlook 2007 for a month and
I'm sure the spell check worked originally - it's only in the last week that
it's stopped

 

[Neil C]

Amazingly - two months later I still haven't found a solution. And I've been
looking. I have had lots of conversations with people who insist that their
spell-check is working fine, only to discover that when they test it
properly, it's not. This is a very insidious problem, since in most cases
the user (sender) has no idea that it's happening.

Let me know if you ever find a fix beyond just always using HTML format
e-mail (a even that doesn't help if you hit reply to someone's plain-text
e-mail).