Brand new Dell PC with XP Pro. Installed Office XP on it.

Outlook Express (which I think uses the spelling facilities of Office) will 
only spell-check in French: Tools | Options | Spelling | Language only has 
French in the drop-down box, whereas other PCs have English (British) and 
English (American).

I've checked that the Control Panel | Regional and Language Options are all 
set to UK on the various tabsheets.

Any suggestions as to what might have gone wrong?

<uk.comp.misc>
<Mortimer>
<Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:18:46 +0100>
<jfOdnWVK4czi98LVnZ2dnUVZ8umdnZ2d@posted.plusnet>

> will only spell-check in French
> 

Then install the british version of outlook express :-))


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> <uk.comp.misc>
> <Mortimer>
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>> will only spell-check in French
>>
>
> Then install the british version of outlook express :-))

OE comes as part of XP and isn't normally installed separately. I think even 
the upgrade from IE6 to IE7 doesn't touch OE, but I could be wrong on that.

Mortimer wrote:
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>> <Mortimer>
>> <Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:18:46 +0100>
>> <jfOdnWVK4czi98LVnZ2dnUVZ8umdnZ2d@posted.plusnet>
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>>> will only spell-check in French
>>>
>> Then install the british version of outlook express :-))
> 
> OE comes as part of XP and isn't normally installed separately. I think even 
> the upgrade from IE6 to IE7 doesn't touch OE, but I could be wrong on that. 
> 

Google the words "outlook express dictionary"

<http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman/archive/2007/01/03/how-to-fix-the-outlook-express-spelling-checker-when-the-french-dictionary-is-the-only-dictionary.aspx>

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Adrian C

Mortimer wrote:
> Brand new Dell PC with XP Pro. Installed Office XP on it.
>
> Outlook Express (which I think uses the spelling facilities of
> Office) will only spell-check in French: Tools | Options | Spelling |
> Language only has French in the drop-down box, whereas other PCs have
> English (British) and English (American).
>
> I've checked that the Control Panel | Regional and Language Options
> are all set to UK on the various tabsheets.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might have gone wrong?

OE uses the spellchecker of Word, it is there that you must set the 
default language.

Mortimer wrote:
> Brand new Dell PC with XP Pro. Installed Office XP on it.
> 
> Outlook Express (which I think uses the spelling facilities of Office) will 
> only spell-check in French: Tools | Options | Spelling | Language only has 
> French in the drop-down box, whereas other PCs have English (British) and 
> English (American).
> 
> I've checked that the Control Panel | Regional and Language Options are all 
> set to UK on the various tabsheets.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what might have gone wrong? 
> 
> 

Sure it's not Office 2007?  Or maybe you haven't installed the "Proofing 
Tools".  OE uses the spellchecker from Office if it's installed, but 
2007 uses a different system, leaving OE (bizarrement) only with French.

One fix is here: http://www.justlocal.com.au/clients/oespellcheck/
Another is to try out Thunderbird, which has its own spellchecker, and a 
spam filter too.  Very like OE to set up and use.

Phil, London