Language Set To French

External Since: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 1

Thanks Bruce - your suggestion of installing Office 2003 English Proofing
tool did the trick!

Cheers

David

"Bruce Hagen" wrote:

> I don't know where the Office 2003 proofing tools are. I was only citing a
> blog that has worked for others.
>
> Outlook Express has never come with a spell check of its own and has always
> relied on a third party program.
>
> Since OE is on its last legs, no issue that was never addressed before will
> certainly not be addressed now.
>
> As I said, I have always used a free spell check, and I know a few people
> that like TinySpell so much, they use that even though they have the option
> to use the spell check from Word.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "Tim" <Tim.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:66CF67AB-1FDC-47AD-B008-C5E30D8CDD6A@microsoft.com...
> > Been following this thread since I am having the same problem and just
> > want
> > to make sure I understand. I bought Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft
> > Office
> > 2003, and Office 2007, and the recommendation to this is to either try and
> > find the dictionary from Office 2003, which on my system is not where
> > Bruce
> > said it was or download the a third party spell checker????? You have to
> > be
> > kidding me. Where is the support team this is obvious and needs to be
> > fixed.
> >
> > Seems I may be wasting my money on MS products.....
> >
> >
> > "Dell Boy" wrote:
> >
> >> I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows XP
> >> Home
> >> SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) in
> >> Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
> >> change
> >> language becasue French is selected but greyed out.
> >>
> >> The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom and
> >> English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.
> >>
> >> Can anyone give any suggestions?
>
>

External Since: Apr 17, 2004 Posts: 14930

You're welcome.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA

"Big D" <Big D RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F3E08A3-9B0A-4ACB-8A09-3DF416C2FFC5@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Bruce - your suggestion of installing Office 2003 English Proofing
> tool did the trick!
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
> "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
>
>> I don't know where the Office 2003 proofing tools are. I was only citing
>> a
>> blog that has worked for others.
>>
>> Outlook Express has never come with a spell check of its own and has
>> always
>> relied on a third party program.
>>
>> Since OE is on its last legs, no issue that was never addressed before
>> will
>> certainly not be addressed now.
>>
>> As I said, I have always used a free spell check, and I know a few people
>> that like TinySpell so much, they use that even though they have the
>> option
>> to use the spell check from Word.
>> --
>> Bruce Hagen
>> MS-MVP Outlook Express
>> ~IB-CA~
>>
>> "Tim" <Tim RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:66CF67AB-1FDC-47AD-B008-C5E30D8CDD6A@microsoft.com...
>> > Been following this thread since I am having the same problem and just
>> > want
>> > to make sure I understand. I bought Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft
>> > Office
>> > 2003, and Office 2007, and the recommendation to this is to either try
>> > and
>> > find the dictionary from Office 2003, which on my system is not where
>> > Bruce
>> > said it was or download the a third party spell checker????? You have
>> > to
>> > be
>> > kidding me. Where is the support team this is obvious and needs to be
>> > fixed.
>> >
>> > Seems I may be wasting my money on MS products.....
>> >
>> >
>> > "Dell Boy" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows
>> >> XP
>> >> Home
>> >> SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling)
>> >> in
>> >> Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
>> >> change
>> >> language becasue French is selected but greyed out.
>> >>
>> >> The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom
>> >> and
>> >> English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone give any suggestions?
>>
>>