You're welcome.

If you read the blog carefully, the spelling isn't set to French, it's just
that OE can't understand the English Proofing Tools.

Lest we forget that since XP is the last version of Windows that will use
OE, MS is not very concerned with OE other than security and fatal flaw
issues.

OTOH, if someone sent an OE user an e-mail with an attachment using earlier
versions of Outlook's RTF format, OE could not read that either. So this is
just one more instance of Outlook Express being distanced by Outlook.

BTY, I have always used a free spell check, and I know of one OE MVP that
liked Tiny Spell so much more than the spell check using Word, he installed
that.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Jim" wrote in message
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Bruce ...

Thank you for the quick, informative reply.

I will heed your directions but, sure question why MS did such without
informing 'us' and why MS doesn't offer a solution other than 3rd party?

And, why would the 'language of spelling choice' be set to French ?

Take care.
Jim
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"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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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 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'.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Jim" wrote in message
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Good Evening ...

1. Installed Home Office and Student 2007
2. After install, Spelling Language changed to French in OE and, no
other languages available ... with no notification.
3. I have IE7

Your help will be appreciated; thank you.
Jim
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