spell checker

[Ramjet]

This is my first time in this forum and I've got a complaint. I don't have a
spell checker in OE6 since installing Office '07. The billions of dollars
Microsoft receives from consumers, you'd think they would fix a problem
instead of telling you to go to a third party. I am not happy

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[XS11E]

This is my first time in this forum and I've got a complaint. I
don't have a spell checker in OE6 since installing Office '07. The
billions of dollars Microsoft receives from consumers, you'd think
they would fix a problem instead of telling you to go to a third
party. I am not happy

Unhappyness is not a problem anyone here can fix. You either knew
about the problem when you installed Office '07 or you failed to do
your homework before installing it.

The problem will probably not be fixed as MSFT's efforts will be toward
Vista and Windows Mail along with Windows Live Mail. Windows Live Mail
spell checks so why not take a look at it?

http://morethanmail.spaces.live.com/

Other solutions are to install a spell checker or, better yet, get a
newsreader and email client that does spell check, OE is far from the
best at either task.

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Stop using the miserable CDO, nobody is paying any attention to the
"suggestion" bit. You'll be much happier configuring a newsreader to
read newsgroups.

 

[Ramjet]

What was the homework I was suppsed to do before installing the program?

 

[Echo S]

I don't blame you for being irritated. I would be, too.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...fd25c58cbdf?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#741a5fd25c58cbdf
might help get you sorted out. If you have Office 2003 or XP install disks,
you can install the English Proofing Tools from them. Otherwise, yeah, it's
necessary to download a third-party spellcheck program. (There are a couple
of free ones mentioned on the aforementioned link.)

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[Peter Foldes]

You no longer have spell checking capabilities in some languages in Outlook
Express 6.0 after you install the 2007 Microsoft Office system:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974

Office 2007 breaks OE's spell check. Downloading a free spell check is the
simplest way around this.

Some free spell check programs.

Vampirefo:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952

TinySpell:
http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ (Checks the spelling as you type).

Or from this blog:
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80

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.


a.. 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.
b.. There are a few scenarios in which you won't run into this problem:
a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you
don't manually uninstall the earlier version of Office.
b.. 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.
c.. 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.

 

[XS11E]

What was the homework I was suppsed to do before installing the
program?

You should have learned that it would not allow spellchecking in OE.

You need to do some homework before installing any software, things
happen and you need to know about them before making the decision to
install or not install a new program.