Hi Kcantrell

How you get the proofing tools in office 2003 cd? I am not able to find can
let me know which file? here is my email address

Thank you
Eric

"Kcantrell" wrote:

Thanks Bruce the workaround worked for me. Using XP & upgraded to Office
2007, tried your solution and now I can read my spell checker!

Ken


You may be able to get around this issue with a copy of
Office 2003. You can install the Proofing tools from the Office
2003 installation CD and it will restore the spell checking
capabilities in Outlook Express.

"eric foo" eric foo @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
...

How you get the proofing tools in office 2003 cd? I am not able to find
can
let me know which file? here is my email address


Start an install, choose custom and deselect everything except Proofing
tools.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com

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

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

Hey, Bruce -

Thanks for all the good info. Unfortunately, my new Dell was delivered with
Office 2007 and I don't have an earlier version of Office -- either 2003 or
XP. My previous life allowed me the use of a computer from work where I
didn't need to take ownership of my software.

What would you suggest I do to install an earlier version of the dictionary
so I don't have to learn French or install a third party program in order to
spell check in OE.

Any light you could shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

- Tammy

"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

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 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 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dell Boy" Dell am wrote in message
...
I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows XP
Home
SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) in
Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
change
language becasue French is selected but greyed out.

The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom and
English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.

Can anyone give any suggestions?

Repost:

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).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/


TLeeT wrote:
Hey, Bruce -

Thanks for all the good info. Unfortunately, my new Dell was delivered
with
Office 2007 and I don't have an earlier version of Office -- either 2003
or
XP. My previous life allowed me the use of a computer from work where I
didn't need to take ownership of my software.

What would you suggest I do to install an earlier version of the
dictionary
so I don't have to learn French or install a third party program in order
to
spell check in OE.

Any light you could shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

- Tammy

"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

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 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 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dell Boy" Dell am wrote in message
...
I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows XP
Home
SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) in
Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
change
language becasue French is selected but greyed out.

The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom
and
English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.

Can anyone give any suggestions?

I did the download of Vimpirefo. It looks like the language is set to
English but now when I try to send a message the "send" button fades and the
program locks up. Help.

Lu
"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

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 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 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dell Boy" Dell am wrote in message
...
I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows XP
Home
SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) in
Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
change
language becasue French is selected but greyed out.

The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom and
English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.

Can anyone give any suggestions?

You should always start your own new thread and not latch onto another
outdated one.

Get rid of Vampirefo via Add/Remove Programs. Restart your machine. Other
than the spell check, is everything back to normal?

If so, close all other programs except the download site. Click on Download
and Save, (do not Run), the program and save it to a folder on your HDD. My
Documents is fine.

Now, with *all* programs closed, right click on your anti-virus icon and
disable it. Open the saved download and install it now. When you're done,
close any open windows and restart your computer.

Open OE and try it now. Any difference?
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Lu" wrote in message
...
I did the download of Vimpirefo. It looks like the language is set to
English but now when I try to send a message the "send" button fades and
the
program locks up. Help.

Lu
"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

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 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 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dell Boy" Dell am wrote in message
...
I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows
XP
Home
SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) in
Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
change
language becasue French is selected but greyed out.

The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom
and
English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.

Can anyone give any suggestions?

I installed Vampirefo and it does list English as a spelling option now.
However, if I select English the message locks up and does not spell check or
send. Do you know if there's anyway to correc this other than going back to
French.


"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

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 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 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dell Boy" Dell am wrote in message
...
I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows XP
Home
SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) in
Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
change
language becasue French is selected but greyed out.

The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom and
English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.

Can anyone give any suggestions?

We heard you the first time.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Lu" wrote in message
...
I installed Vampirefo and it does list English as a spelling option now.
However, if I select English the message locks up and does not spell check
or
send. Do you know if there's anyway to correc this other than going back
to
French.


"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

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 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 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.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Dell Boy" Dell am wrote in message
...
I've just installed Office 2007 Home and student Edition on a Windows
XP
Home
SP2 PC with latest updates and the Language (Tools-Options-Spelling) in
Outlook Express 6 SP2 has now changed to French. It is not possible to
change
language becasue French is selected but greyed out.

The Primary Editing Language in Office 2007 is English United Kingdom
and
English United States is also in the Enabled Editing Languages list.

Can anyone give any suggestions?