Many people are installing Office 2007 and then discovering that their spell check for Outlook Express is set for French. This is fine if you are writing emails in French, but most of us aren’t.
Microsoft is aware of the problem and their solution is the upgrade to Windows Vista.
Our solution is do download and install this free spell check program.
Another less than elegant solution is to:
- Close all programs
- Start Microsoft Word 2007
- Click the Office Orb
- Click Word Options
- Click Proofing
- Click Custom Dictionaries
- Change the spell check language to any other language
- Click OK
- Click OK
- Close Microsoft Word
- Reopen MS Word
- Click the Office Orb
- Click Word Options
- Click Proofing
- Click Custom Dictionaries
- Change the spell check language back to English
- Click OK
- Click OK
- Close Microsoft Word
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It changd the language in word, however, the Outlook express is still checking in french??? Any suggestions?
Did you perform all the steps outlined here with Outlook Express closed?
Like Jim Gunn, I also did all of your recommended steps – twice – but my Outlook Express is still doing spell check in French. I then followed your link to a download but wqs not sure which of the options there would be a direct fix for the Outlook. Your advice is greatly appreciated and I hope we can get this fixed.
Thanks,
Bill
Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work. In those cases, it is best to download and use that free add-on spell checker linked in the article.
Rick -
The free download site gives several to choose from. Which do you recommend?
Thanks,
Bill
You are looking at the ads Bill…there is only one legitimate link on the page I’m sending you to for the download. You might want to read and watch this tip I did jsut just this week: Practice smarter browsing to avoid malware – Video Tip
what is the office orb?
The little circle in Vista and upcoming Vista that replaced the start button from 95/98/XP and the little round button in the upper left of Office 2007 are both referred to as orbs…the Windows Orb (old start button) and Office Orb that gets you into save and print menus in Office 2007.
I was not successful in changing to the English language for spell check. I followed your directions and closed Word and turned off the computer. It was downloading 14 files before it shut down the computer. Do you have any other suggestions of what I may be doing wrong to get this spell check corrected to the English language?