My Outlook Express spell chcketr language is set at French, and I want to
change it to English UK. Could you please tell me the step by step way to
change this to check in English.
At the moment even simple words in my e-mails like with and which are
being spell checked because the language setting for spell checker is set on
French. I have already gone to Tools, options spelling and I cant change
the setting on Language tahts is set on French - I have no other language
options to change it too Help please

Geoff

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).

Or from:
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 doesnt 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 wont run into this problem:
a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you
dont 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Geoff" wrote in message
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My Outlook Express spell chcketr language is set at French, and I want to
change it to English UK. Could you please tell me the step by step way to
change this to check in English.
At the moment even simple words in my e-mails like with and which are
being spell checked because the language setting for spell checker is set
on
French. I have already gone to Tools, options spelling and I cant change
the setting on Language tahts is set on French - I have no other language
options to change it too Help please

Geoff