My Outlook Express won't enable the Spell Check button when I am composing
mail. What I can find on this says it is dependent on other Office
applications to supply the dictionary. When I go into Word and click the
Spell Check button in Word 2000, an error message says it can't find the
files msspell3.dll and mssp232.dll. Have gone to Control Panel/Add new
programs and run the reinstall on Office followed by a restart - no luck.
Where can I locate those files and where should they be installed on my PC?

Thank you in advance.

OE 6 does not come with its own spell check. You need Word or an MS Office
program.

The spell checker in the basic Works 4 through 6 will work with OE. Older
and newer versions do not.

If you have Works Suite, that includes MS Word and a spell checker that does
work with OE.

You can also download a free spell check at one of these sites.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952

http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/ (Checks the spelling as you
type).

If you have a functional program, and Spell Check does not work, See:

Spell Checking does not work in OE:
http://mvps.org/PracticallyNerded/OE...ll%20check.htm

Or:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/spellcheck.htm

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

The first link is usually the fix.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Max" wrote in message
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My Outlook Express won't enable the Spell Check button when I am composing
mail. What I can find on this says it is dependent on other Office
applications to supply the dictionary. When I go into Word and click the
Spell Check button in Word 2000, an error message says it can't find the
files msspell3.dll and mssp232.dll. Have gone to Control Panel/Add new
programs and run the reinstall on Office followed by a restart - no luck.
Where can I locate those files and where should they be installed on my
PC?

Thank you in advance.

Max wrote:
My Outlook Express won't enable the Spell Check button when I am composing
mail. What I can find on this says it is dependent on other Office
applications to supply the dictionary. When I go into Word and click the
Spell Check button in Word 2000, an error message says it can't find the
files msspell3.dll and mssp232.dll. Have gone to Control Panel/Add new
programs and run the reinstall on Office followed by a restart - no luck.
Where can I locate those files and where should they be installed on my PC?

On my system they're installed into \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft
Shared\Proof\. The files should be on your Office 2000, but they may be
in a cab file and it probably wouldn't work just to copy them to your hard
drive. When you reinstalled, did you make sure that the appropriate
option was checked to install the proofing tools?

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

See "No spell checker in Outlook Express"
http://www.the-pc-guru.com/No_spell_...n_Outlook_.php .