Spell Checking - English not US

[Gerry Atrick]

I use Outlook 2003 for email and have set it up to use Word 2003 as the editor.
in Tools/Options/Spelling I have selected English(UK) as the dictionary for
spell-checking, This does not appear to apply to the Subject matter. For
example if I use the word color in the Subject line, the spell checker accepts
this, whereas if I use color in the body of the email the spell-checker picks it
up and suggests colour. Is this just a bug in Outlook and/or Word? If not how
do I get Outlook and Word to forget their US origin and concentrate on English
spelling?

I use Windows XP Media Centre 2005, with MS Office SBE 2003.

Gerry Atrick

 

[Bob Lucas]

I use Outlook 2003 for email and have set it up to use Word 2003 as the
editor. in Tools/Options/Spelling I have selected English(UK) as the
dictionary for spell-checking, This does not appear to apply to the Subject
matter. For example if I use the word color in the Subject line, the spell
checker accepts this, whereas if I use color in the body of the email the
spell-checker picks it up and suggests colour. Is this just a bug in
Outlook and/or Word? If not how do I get Outlook and Word to forget their
US origin and concentrate on English spelling?

I use Windows XP Media Centre 2005, with MS Office SBE 2003.

Gerry Atrick

Provided you have chosen English (UK) as the default language in Word, all
Microsoft Office applications on your computer should use the English (UK)
spellchecker. You should check whether English (UK) is the default
language. If necessary, you should select it as the default language in
normal.dot.

The Office 2003 suite of programs does include a dedicated menu to configure
language settings for all Office programs. In Windows XP, click on Start /
All Programs / Microsoft Office/ Microsoft Office Tools / Microsoft Office
2003 Language Settings. Choose English (UK) as the default language.

However, I don't think your problem is related to the choice of UK or US
spellchecker. Outlook 2003 checks spellings within the main body of the
message. However, it does not check the spelling of anything you type in
the subject line. It doesn't matter whether you type color, colour,
collour, cccccoulour (or any other combination of letters and numbers). If
it really is essential that you check spellings in the subject line, you
shouold type the words in the body of the message and run the spellchecker.
Then, select and cut the words - and paste them into the subject line.

 

[Gerry Atrick]

Provided you have chosen English (UK) as the default language in Word, all
Microsoft Office applications on your computer should use the English (UK)
spellchecker. You should check whether English (UK) is the default language.
If necessary, you should select it as the default language in normal.dot.

The Office 2003 suite of programs does include a dedicated menu to configure
language settings for all Office programs. In Windows XP, click on Start /
All Programs / Microsoft Office/ Microsoft Office Tools / Microsoft Office
2003 Language Settings. Choose English (UK) as the default language.

However, I don't think your problem is related to the choice of UK or US
spellchecker. Outlook 2003 checks spellings within the main body of the
message. However, it does not check the spelling of anything you type in the
subject line. It doesn't matter whether you type color, colour, collour,
cccccoulour (or any other combination of letters and numbers). If it really
is essential that you check spellings in the subject line, you shouold type
the words in the body of the message and run the spellchecker. Then, select
and cut the words - and paste them into the subject line.

Many thanks, Bob. I had selected English(UK) in Word - but did not know about
the option to set the default language via MS Office Tools. Having now done so
I am delighted to report that
the problem appears to be satisfactorily resolved.
I am however very interested in your remark that Outlook 2003 "does not check
the spelling of anything you type in the subject line." I have checked this
several times (both with and without Word 2003 as email editor) and Outlook
certainly appears to spell check the Subject line.
Thanks again for your help - much appreciated.
Gerry

 

[Gerry Atrick]

Many thanks, Bob. I had selected English(UK) in Word - but did not know about
the option to set the default language via MS Office Tools. Having now done
so I am delighted to report that
the problem appears to be satisfactorily resolved.
I am however very interested in your remark that Outlook 2003 "does not check
the spelling of anything you type in the subject line." I have checked this
several times (both with and without Word 2003 as email editor) and Outlook
certainly appears to spell check the Subject line.
Thanks again for your help - much appreciated.
Gerry

Bob - have just discovered that Outlook Express (which I use for reading and
posting to Newsgroups) does not spell check within Subject Lines - perhasp that
is what you were referring to.

Gerry

 

[Bob Lucas]

Bob - have just discovered that Outlook Express (which I use for reading
and posting to Newsgroups) does not spell check within Subject Lines -
perhasp that is what you were referring to.

Gerry

You are quite correct.. I do use Outlook Express as my primary email
utility.

However, the Office 2003 suite of programs on my laptop also includes
Outlook 2003. The language settings are the same as yours (i.e. English
UK).

When I experimented with your problem, I discovered that the spellchecker
only checks the main body of the message in Outlook Express. It does not
check the subject line.

The situation is differs slightly with Outlook 2003. The spellchecker
checks the main body of the message and as you type, it also underlines
Americanisms and other incorrect spellings - but only within the main body
of the message. The spellchecker does not seem to underline misspelt words
within the subject line - so I assumed (incorrectly) that it does not check
the subject line.

Following your latest remarks, I carried out further tests - which confirmed
that although Outlook 2003 does not seem to underline words in the subject
line, the separate spell-check function (used by clicking on Tools/Spelling
& Grammar - or by clicking on F7) does check the entire message - INCLUDING
words in the subject line.

This seems to be yet another quirk of Outlook and the Office suite of
programs !


Bob

 

[Gerry Atrick]

[snipped]


Bob - thanks. Glad to know that you found the same behaviour in Outlook 2003.
At least I can rest now knowing that on this occasion it is something I am doing
wrong!!! LOL
It was good of you to post back.

Gerry