To add to Peter's and Bruce's input..
....if choosing the following option when Office 2007 installed....
" 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"
...consider only installing Office 2007 udpates(via Windows Updates) and not 2003 if the same update applies to both.
...winston
MS-MVP WLMd
"Peter Foldes" <***@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:***@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
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LOL. love those supposed tech support people. They always have an answer as to blame the wrong issue. Anyway Office 2007 breaks the spell check in MSN,OE and etc
Below is a snip from Bruce Hagen MS-MVO oe
snip<
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.
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 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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I cannot get the English spell checker for e-mail. It is set on French
(Canada). One tech support told me they had to reinstall MSN and the one wh
was suppose to do it was very nasty and told me it is not compatible. Anybody
knows?