OUTLOOK EXPRESS SPELLCHECK

Which folders and/or files do I need to copy from my WORD 2000 disk to
provide an English spellcheck in Outlook Express? Where do they need to be
stored?(I do not want to install the whole program as I have already
installed Office 2007 (Home & Student edition). Help appreciated

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.


--
Peter

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"Saint Jude" wrote in message ...
Which folders and/or files do I need to copy from my WORD 2000 disk to
provide an English spellcheck in Outlook Express? Where do they need to be
stored?(I do not want to install the whole program as I have already
installed Office 2007 (Home & Student edition). Help appreciated

Thanks for this Peter.

I am grateful but the first link is to an American dictionary which will
give problems; the second link does not work; I could not find anything to
help in the pschmid blog.

Bill

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

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.


--
Peter

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Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Saint Jude" wrote in message ...
Which folders and/or files do I need to copy from my WORD 2000 disk to
provide an English spellcheck in Outlook Express? Where do they need to be
stored?(I do not want to install the whole program as I have already
installed Office 2007 (Home & Student edition). Help appreciated

I could not find anything to help in the pschmid blog.

And why not ?


--
Peter

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"Saint Jude" wrote in message ...
Thanks for this Peter.

I am grateful but the first link is to an American dictionary which will
give problems; the second link does not work; I could not find anything to
help in the pschmid blog.

Bill

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

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.


--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Saint Jude" wrote in message ...
Which folders and/or files do I need to copy from my WORD 2000 disk to
provide an English spellcheck in Outlook Express? Where do they need to be
stored?(I do not want to install the whole program as I have already
installed Office 2007 (Home & Student edition). Help appreciated

Peter
Peter,

Your brief reply made me realise I was missing something obvious and when I
went back to the blog page of course there was the relevant item.

I am still however unsure just what I need to do. My old WORD program was
WORD 2000 (not 2003). I have looked at this disk and cannot identify which
folders/files are the English dictionary. Similarly I have looked at the
Windows XP disk that I purchased for my previous computer and again cannot
identify which files I need to copy. A search for files with an extension of
..dic produces no hits.

Bill

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

I could not find anything to help in the pschmid blog.

And why not ?


--
Peter

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Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Saint Jude" wrote in message ...
Thanks for this Peter.

I am grateful but the first link is to an American dictionary which will
give problems; the second link does not work; I could not find anything to
help in the pschmid blog.

Bill

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

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.


--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"Saint Jude" wrote in message ...
Which folders and/or files do I need to copy from my WORD 2000 disk to
provide an English spellcheck in Outlook Express? Where do they need to be
stored?(I do not want to install the whole program as I have already
installed Office 2007 (Home & Student edition). Help appreciated

Saint Jude wrote:
I am still however unsure just what I need to do. My old WORD program was
WORD 2000 (not 2003). I have looked at this disk and cannot identify which
folders/files are the English dictionary. Similarly I have looked at the
Windows XP disk that I purchased for my previous computer and again cannot
identify which files I need to copy. A search for files with an extension of
.dic produces no hits.

None of the supplied spell check components has the extension .dic. My
English version of Word 2000 includes about 20 files in the folder
D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof, which I believe are
all related to spell check. Most have extensions of .LEX or .DLL.

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

Thanks to the replies from both Peter and Gary I have tracked down the
"Proof" folder on my WORD 2000 disk. All I need to know now is where to copy
this folder to within Windows XP. I tried it in C:/Program Files/Microsoft
Office but that did not work

"Gary Smith" wrote:

Saint Jude wrote:
I am still however unsure just what I need to do. My old WORD program was
WORD 2000 (not 2003). I have looked at this disk and cannot identify which
folders/files are the English dictionary. Similarly I have looked at the
Windows XP disk that I purchased for my previous computer and again cannot
identify which files I need to copy. A search for files with an extension of
.dic produces no hits.

None of the supplied spell check components has the extension .dic. My
English version of Word 2000 includes about 20 files in the folder
D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof, which I believe are
all related to spell check. Most have extensions of .LEX or .DLL.

--
Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio

"Saint Jude" wrote in message
...
Thanks to the replies from both Peter and Gary I have tracked down the
"Proof" folder on my WORD 2000 disk. All I need to know now is where to
copy
this folder to within Windows XP. I tried it in C:/Program Files/Microsoft
Office but that did not work

You don't. You do a Custom Install and select the proofing tools as the bit
you want to install.