I have no idea why the Vampirefo spell check is unavailable for you. The
link is valid, and the spell check works fine for me.
OE never, ever had its own spell check, and you don't need Office 2003 to
get a free one. No one else has posted here that they had a problem using a
free download.
I don't work for MS so I can only surmise that the Office dev team, that has
nothing to do with the old OE dev team, was not interested if the spell
check worked for an MS product that is no longer being produced.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA
"Don" wrote in message
news
Vampirefo and the others that you cited are either NOT AVAILABLE or NOT
APPLICABLE. Who wants a registry fix when the problem is MSFT's inability
to
provide English in America where Gates amassed $60BILLION. I dont want to
spend $400 for 2003 Office when I have the crappy 2007 Office that if
uninstalled will void my warranty and the two wont run side by side.
"Bruce Hagen" wrote:
You would need an Office 2003 installation disk.
I have used the free spell check from Vampirefo for years and it works
just
fine.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA
"Don" wrote in message
...
I have Office 2007 on my Toshiba. How can I obtain the "Office Shared
Features/Proofing Tools/English" from Office 2003? Is a download
available
for the proofing tools?
"Bruce Hagen" wrote:
Office 2007 breaks OE's spell check. Downloading a free spell check is
the
simplest way around this.
Some free spell check programs.
Vampirefo:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952
TinySpell:
http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ (Checks the spelling as you type).
Or from this blog:
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 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~
"Dell Boy" Dell am wrote in message
...
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?