The OE team was disbanded in 2006 since OE will no longer be produced. It
was their collaboration with the Office team that gave OE the spell check
capabilities. MS has already given up on Windows Mail in Vista, so don't
expect any patches for OE other that for security issues.

I, as I am sure there are many, have never used an Office program and has
had to always rely on a third party spell check. No worries here.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"8228" wrote in message
...
I have a brand new PC with XP and MS Office Home and Student 2007 and my
Outlook Express only had French and no other choice for language for Spell
Check.

I downloaded the Vampirefo:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952

It only took a few minutes and now I have English in my OE.

Why doesn't MS have this in their fixes? Went to the MS download site,
and
made sure that I had all my critical updates done, expecting that to fix
the
French only problem, but it didn't. I had to find the answer myself here.

Very annoying and time consuming.

"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