Outlook Express wont spell check
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This is a known bug when using Outlook Express 6 after you've installed Office 2007 - for some reason OE6 isn't compatible with the Office 2007 dictionaries.
Microsoft's solution is to download and use Windows Live Mail instead.....
Well, I'm writing this on my new Dell Vostro 3300 which has both OE6 and Windows Live Mail. I really hate Windows Live Mail right now because it won't let me order my folders the way I require - it orders them in the way some technogeek thinks I want them......
Microsoft knows all about this OE6 / Office 2007 spell check bug (it only works in French..), but seems totally uninterested in fixing it.
And please don't anyone witter on about how good other browsers and e-mail systems may or may not be - or what wonderful things Immac make - this is a specific Outlook Express query!
The link you provided, BOAC, is too complicated for the majority of home users who just want their spell checker back. Why isn't Microsoft fixing its own bugs?
Microsoft's solution is to download and use Windows Live Mail instead.....
Well, I'm writing this on my new Dell Vostro 3300 which has both OE6 and Windows Live Mail. I really hate Windows Live Mail right now because it won't let me order my folders the way I require - it orders them in the way some technogeek thinks I want them......
Microsoft knows all about this OE6 / Office 2007 spell check bug (it only works in French..), but seems totally uninterested in fixing it.
And please don't anyone witter on about how good other browsers and e-mail systems may or may not be - or what wonderful things Immac make - this is a specific Outlook Express query!
The link you provided, BOAC, is too complicated for the majority of home users who just want their spell checker back. Why isn't Microsoft fixing its own bugs?
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SOPS
I presume you do mean Office 97?
It includes Outlook which you could use to solve your problem.
If you are not familiar with outlook it is works very much the same as OE and it is easy to import your OE files.
I presume you do mean Office 97?
It includes Outlook which you could use to solve your problem.
If you are not familiar with outlook it is works very much the same as OE and it is easy to import your OE files.
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Yes, the breathtaking arrogance of Microsoft beggars belief. This software bug is the major issue with Office 2007, yet they can't be arsed to fix it.
Perhaps they'll have fixed it in Office 2010? I'm not holding my breath....
Perhaps they'll have fixed it in Office 2010? I'm not holding my breath....
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Only one involving Bill Gates 
and a large garden gnome.....
I've also spent most of the day faffing with the HORRIBLE Windows Live Mail, the e-mail system which Microsoft alleges is the replacement for Outlook Express. Well, it just makes everything much more difficult - and I cannot get it to import the WAB file which holds my address book, no matter what I do...
and a large garden gnome.....I've also spent most of the day faffing with the HORRIBLE Windows Live Mail, the e-mail system which Microsoft alleges is the replacement for Outlook Express. Well, it just makes everything much more difficult - and I cannot get it to import the WAB file which holds my address book, no matter what I do...
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This worked for me:
1. Open windows live mail
2. Click on File->Import Address Book (.WAB) from the menu in windows live mail, and follow the wizard.
.......................and I don't like it either!
1. Open windows live mail
2. Click on File->Import Address Book (.WAB) from the menu in windows live mail, and follow the wizard.
.......................and I don't like it either!
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
SOPS - what did you do?
The only free spell checker I could find used American English, not proper Queen's English.....
Re. Windows Live Mail, if I 'log in' I can import my WAB file, but there is no option to import it if I don't. Then if I log in again, it has gone. This truly sucks - WLM has also just lost a couple of messages which I sent and moved to my 'storage folders'; also the 'All sent items' folder doesn't seem to work; the sent items are only saved in the individual account folders.
The only free spell checker I could find used American English, not proper Queen's English.....
Re. Windows Live Mail, if I 'log in' I can import my WAB file, but there is no option to import it if I don't. Then if I log in again, it has gone. This truly sucks - WLM has also just lost a couple of messages which I sent and moved to my 'storage folders'; also the 'All sent items' folder doesn't seem to work; the sent items are only saved in the individual account folders.
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
My 'import WAB' bug was solved by updating the 'Windows Live Communication Platform' - it seems that this Dell Vostro 3300 was delivered with an old version pre-installed.
However, along with thousands of other people it seems, I still kept losing 'sent' e-mails from WLM, so I sent off for the 'Australian Fix' which was waiting for me this morning when I checked my e-mails. Downloaded it, unzipped it and followed the instructions.....I now have OE6 back with a UK English spellchecker, so can forget about the POS Windows Live Mail until the Gates-geeks have unbuggered it!
However, along with thousands of other people it seems, I still kept losing 'sent' e-mails from WLM, so I sent off for the 'Australian Fix' which was waiting for me this morning when I checked my e-mails. Downloaded it, unzipped it and followed the instructions.....I now have OE6 back with a UK English spellchecker, so can forget about the POS Windows Live Mail until the Gates-geeks have unbuggered it!
