Outlook Express spell check and Office 2007

T

Trond Svendsen

In ye old days OE6 would use the spell check functionality from Word 2003,
but after switching to Word 2007, spell check is no longer available.

What can I do to bring this back?
 
C

cat52

Steve,

I felt more grateful for this than a mere "yes this was helpful" check box
would express (as it were). Thanks for the geekslink - the D/L was quick and
it works like a champ.

Will OE ever share proofing tools with Word again, or are we OE home users
of the 2007 packages permanently divorced from the Word 2007 dictionary?
 
B

Bruce Hagen

You can get the spell check to work if you still have the 2003 CD. This is
my canned reply which also has the free downloads.

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

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

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

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

After installing Office 2007 RTM, you dont 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 doesnt 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 wont run into this problem:
a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you
dont 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.
 
D

Danny

This may have worked for you Bruce but it didnot fo me and alot of users. I
emaild Bill Gates and actually got a reply. He assigned a MS OE Engineer from
Dallas to work with me and your fix doesNOT work 75% of the time. A "hot fix"
is being implemented as we speak but the MSOE Engineering Support uses
this...www.majorgeeks.com and download the "Spellcheck for OE" It works
perfectly on my 3 machines and is flawless. It substitues the English
proofing dictionary in where the MS 2007 deletes it or ignores it.
Dan
 
N

N. Miller

This may have worked for you Bruce but it didnot fo me and alot of users. I
emaild Bill Gates and actually got a reply. He assigned a MS OE Engineer from
Dallas to work with me and your fix doesNOT work 75% of the time. A "hot fix"
is being implemented as we speak but the MSOE Engineering Support uses
this...www.majorgeeks.com and download the "Spellcheck for OE" It works
perfectly on my 3 machines and is flawless. It substitues the English
proofing dictionary in where the MS 2007 deletes it or ignores it.
Click to expand...

I got around the problem by cobbling together a complicated, ad hoc fix
using the spell checker from an older version of Microsoft Works which was
included with Windows ME on the older computer.

Bruce' fix would have worked, but sometimes I like doing things the hard
way.

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