You have two problems. For the error message...........

Spell Checking does not work in OE:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/spellcheck.htm

An error occurred while the spelling was being checked or: Spell Check was
halted:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224176


Now when that is fixed, you are going to find that your spell check is in
French since you are using Office 2007. To fix that................

You no longer have spell checking capabilities in some languages in Outlook
Express 6.0 after you install the 2007 Microsoft Office system:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932974

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).

Australian English Spell Check
(Also suitable for other English speaking countries.)
http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oespellcheck/

If you have a previous version of Office, see this:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2006/20061228.htm
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Penny" wrote in message
...
I have been using IE6.0 w/OE6 on a Win XP computer for a long time, never
had a problem with Spell-check. MS works has always been installed on this
computer. Yesterday I installed Microsoft Office 2007, now when I run
spell-check in OE I get a message that "an error occurred while the
spelling was being checked." I'm hoping that I can point OE to either MS
Works which is still on this computer or MS Word. I searched around
looking for a place where I might change the settings, but had no luck.
Even went to the Help menu but of course it does not address problems with
Spell-check only that you need one of the word processing programs on your
computer for it to work. I am so dependent on spell check to check my
spelling that I have to copy/paste into Word, run check then copy/paste
back again to OE. This is not a happy situation!

Thanks for any help you can give me.


Penny