YW. You should be OK. That is one of the workarounds.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"DPM" wrote in message
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Bruce,

I installed the Office 2003 English Proofing Tools and it seems to have
fixed the problem.

May I hopefully assume that I didn't break Office 2007 as a result?

Thanks,
Dean

"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~

"DPM" wrote in message
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I just applied the latest security patches, and now OE (6.00.2900.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) defaults to French in the spelling checker.
Of course, the language set in the control panel is US English.

Does anyone know how to recover at this point?
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Regards,
Dean