No spelling capability?

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JohnExcel

Why do the managers and staff of MS Outlook 2007 believe that "meeeting" is a
proper English word?

MS Excel 2007 doesn't believe it. MS PowerPoint 2007 doesn't believe it.


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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

Are you saying the outlook interface has meeting spelt wrong? Or doesn't
your spell check find words you mistyped? (Didn't your grade school teachers
teach you how to spell proper English words? <g>)

If the problem is with your typing and the misspelling is in the subject
line you may need to press F7 to kick off spell check if you aren't using
the check before sending option.

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J

JohnExcel

Diane:
I don't understand your first question.
If I misspell a word in an outbound message --- meeeting, comupter, ....
-- then press F7, I get a box that asks whether I want to continue at the
top. Even when I select the misspelled word first, same thing. I checked
custom.dic; there is no misspelled "meeeting" there. When I misspell
"meeeting" in Excel, PP, etc., and press F7, it instantly gets marked as a
misspelled word.
I have not kept track of the misspelled words that I have found myself,
but there are more than 10, and I have only been at this employer's shop for
six weeeeeks.
At times, Outlook <does> seem to mark misspellings. I just don't
understand why I see this now, in OL2007, and it never seemed to occur in
OL-prior.
Try it. Let us know what you see.
I don't think I have ever found a common English word whose misspelling
is not found by MS Excel -- and I have been using that since 1992. Same for
Word -- which I have used since Bill Gates wrote it <g>.
John S.

Diane Poremsky said:
Are you saying the outlook interface has meeting spelt wrong? Or doesn't
your spell check find words you mistyped? (Didn't your grade school teachers
teach you how to spell proper English words? <g>)

If the problem is with your typing and the misspelling is in the subject
line you may need to press F7 to kick off spell check if you aren't using
the check before sending option.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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JohnExcel said:
Why do the managers and staff of MS Outlook 2007 believe that "meeeting"
is a
proper English word?

MS Excel 2007 doesn't believe it. MS PowerPoint 2007 doesn't believe it.


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V

VanguardLH

JohnExcel said:
Why do the managers and staff of MS Outlook 2007 believe that "meeeting" is a
proper English word?

MS Excel 2007 doesn't believe it. MS PowerPoint 2007 doesn't believe it.
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Perhaps you should enable the option to perform the spellcheck BEFORE
sending an e-mail.

Or maybe you added the word "meeeting" to your custom dictionary so now
it will thereafter be ignored. Go edit your custom dictionary to see if
you added the misspelled word. My old Outlook 2002 catches "meeeting"
as misspelled.
 
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Diane Poremsky [MVP]

I can assure that outlook's spell checker works just like word and excels.
There was a bug that under some circumstances, the spelling was corrected on
screen but the message was not actually updated. This was fixed in an
update.

Are you using spell check as you type? if so, are the words underlined in
red?
Are you using a style is set to ignore misspelled words? Are you typing in
the signature field? (right click on the misspelled words - do you see the
signature selector).



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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JohnExcel said:
Diane:
I don't understand your first question.
If I misspell a word in an outbound message --- meeeting, comupter, ....
-- then press F7, I get a box that asks whether I want to continue at the
top. Even when I select the misspelled word first, same thing. I checked
custom.dic; there is no misspelled "meeeting" there. When I misspell
"meeeting" in Excel, PP, etc., and press F7, it instantly gets marked as a
misspelled word.
I have not kept track of the misspelled words that I have found myself,
but there are more than 10, and I have only been at this employer's shop
for
six weeeeeks.
At times, Outlook <does> seem to mark misspellings. I just don't
understand why I see this now, in OL2007, and it never seemed to occur in
OL-prior.
Try it. Let us know what you see.
I don't think I have ever found a common English word whose misspelling
is not found by MS Excel -- and I have been using that since 1992. Same
for
Word -- which I have used since Bill Gates wrote it <g>.
John S.

Diane Poremsky said:
Are you saying the outlook interface has meeting spelt wrong? Or doesn't
your spell check find words you mistyped? (Didn't your grade school
teachers
teach you how to spell proper English words? <g>)

If the problem is with your typing and the misspelling is in the subject
line you may need to press F7 to kick off spell check if you aren't using
the check before sending option.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

JohnExcel said:
Why do the managers and staff of MS Outlook 2007 believe that
"meeeting"
is a
proper English word?

MS Excel 2007 doesn't believe it. MS PowerPoint 2007 doesn't believe
it.


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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
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link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
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click "I Agree" in the message pane.

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J

JohnExcel

1. yes
2. sometimes... most of the time
3. I wasn't aware of a style that can be set to ignore words. Are you
asking whether, during spell check, I am clicking the Ignore or Ignore All
buttons?
4. no
5. no, I don't see the signature selector window/dialog box

Diane Poremsky said:
I can assure that outlook's spell checker works just like word and excels.
There was a bug that under some circumstances, the spelling was corrected on
screen but the message was not actually updated. This was fixed in an
update.

Are you using spell check as you type? if so, are the words underlined in
red?
Are you using a style is set to ignore misspelled words? Are you typing in
the signature field? (right click on the misspelled words - do you see the
signature selector).



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

JohnExcel said:
Diane:
I don't understand your first question.
If I misspell a word in an outbound message --- meeeting, comupter, ....
-- then press F7, I get a box that asks whether I want to continue at the
top. Even when I select the misspelled word first, same thing. I checked
custom.dic; there is no misspelled "meeeting" there. When I misspell
"meeeting" in Excel, PP, etc., and press F7, it instantly gets marked as a
misspelled word.
I have not kept track of the misspelled words that I have found myself,
but there are more than 10, and I have only been at this employer's shop
for
six weeeeeks.
At times, Outlook <does> seem to mark misspellings. I just don't
understand why I see this now, in OL2007, and it never seemed to occur in
OL-prior.
Try it. Let us know what you see.
I don't think I have ever found a common English word whose misspelling
is not found by MS Excel -- and I have been using that since 1992. Same
for
Word -- which I have used since Bill Gates wrote it <g>.
John S.

Diane Poremsky said:
Are you saying the outlook interface has meeting spelt wrong? Or doesn't
your spell check find words you mistyped? (Didn't your grade school
teachers
teach you how to spell proper English words? <g>)

If the problem is with your typing and the misspelling is in the subject
line you may need to press F7 to kick off spell check if you aren't using
the check before sending option.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Why do the managers and staff of MS Outlook 2007 believe that
"meeeting"
is a
proper English word?

MS Excel 2007 doesn't believe it. MS PowerPoint 2007 doesn't believe
it.


----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and
then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

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D

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

3. Yes, styles can be configured to ignore spelling mistakes. It's a
Language setting under options. From an open message, right click on the
style (in the ribbon) that you are using and choose modify - it's under
Format, Languages. You can click the little arrow in the lower right corner
of the styles chunk to show the styles pane - the style used by the selected
text will be highlighted.

I don't expect its this issue since you've been using office for 6 weeks but
I'll ask anyway. Is the office icon button flashing orange? If so click the
Microsoft Office Button, close it, and see if spell check begins to work. I
thought this bug was fixed by the latest updates - it only applies to new
installations and only if the button is flashing, which it stops doing once
you click it.

Another possible solution is to exit the office apps and backup then delete
the following registry
key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing
Tools\1.0\Override\en-US

This key will be rebuilt the next time you start Word.


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JohnExcel said:
1. yes
2. sometimes... most of the time
3. I wasn't aware of a style that can be set to ignore words. Are you
asking whether, during spell check, I am clicking the Ignore or Ignore All
buttons?
4. no
5. no, I don't see the signature selector window/dialog box

Diane Poremsky said:
I can assure that outlook's spell checker works just like word and
excels.
There was a bug that under some circumstances, the spelling was corrected
on
screen but the message was not actually updated. This was fixed in an
update.

Are you using spell check as you type? if so, are the words underlined in
red?
Are you using a style is set to ignore misspelled words? Are you typing
in
the signature field? (right click on the misspelled words - do you see
the
signature selector).



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

JohnExcel said:
Diane:
I don't understand your first question.
If I misspell a word in an outbound message --- meeeting, comupter,
....
-- then press F7, I get a box that asks whether I want to continue at
the
top. Even when I select the misspelled word first, same thing. I
checked
custom.dic; there is no misspelled "meeeting" there. When I misspell
"meeeting" in Excel, PP, etc., and press F7, it instantly gets marked
as a
misspelled word.
I have not kept track of the misspelled words that I have found
myself,
but there are more than 10, and I have only been at this employer's
shop
for
six weeeeeks.
At times, Outlook <does> seem to mark misspellings. I just don't
understand why I see this now, in OL2007, and it never seemed to occur
in
OL-prior.
Try it. Let us know what you see.
I don't think I have ever found a common English word whose
misspelling
is not found by MS Excel -- and I have been using that since 1992.
Same
for
Word -- which I have used since Bill Gates wrote it <g>.
John S.

:

Are you saying the outlook interface has meeting spelt wrong? Or
doesn't
your spell check find words you mistyped? (Didn't your grade school
teachers
teach you how to spell proper English words? <g>)

If the problem is with your typing and the misspelling is in the
subject
line you may need to press F7 to kick off spell check if you aren't
using
the check before sending option.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Why do the managers and staff of MS Outlook 2007 believe that
"meeeting"
is a
proper English word?

MS Excel 2007 doesn't believe it. MS PowerPoint 2007 doesn't
believe
it.


----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
the
"I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button,
follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader
and
then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...0050361cf&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general
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