Question about Outlook Express Spell Check

socks

18 years ago

Why would the Spell Check button be greyed out when I try to send e-mails? How can I get that feature back?

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owbist
18 years ago
Did you remove MS Office from the computer? Spell check for OE is through MS Word.

There are a couple of free spell checkers, you would need to
Google for them to select the one you think would suit your needs.
socks
Original Author
18 years ago
We had a problem with the computer, and my son had to run several checks to clear it of problems picked up. Everything seems to be working now except spell check.

I went to Word (not OE)and typed a sentence with errors. A window came up that said that MSSpell check could not be found. After that I typed another document with spelling errors, and it came up that the spell check was complete, but it did not pick up the errors.

I guess my spell check got deleted somehow, so maybe I need to reinstall Word?
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mikie_gw
18 years ago
If you have the CD with word install on it,
you might go to control panel add/remove or Programs/Features and start the uninstall and see if it offers to repair it. If not unistall/reinstall probably will fix it.

I uninstalled trialware that came with a computer here , Office home and student 2007 , and still have email spell check left over and working from it.
DA_Mccoy
18 years ago
Mikie,

Was that a Vista system? I have been holding off removing the same from my new system because of concern of losing spellcheck.

DA
mikie_gw
18 years ago
Yep, about a month old Toshiba Vista Laptop.
You have to register the MS-word or the Office Home and Student before uninstalling ...

I unistalled it without registering and things screwed up - needed reinstalling the Restore CD completely. Vista and all the junk.

But that gave a chance to put it on a reduced size partition so I could make a spare 20gb for fedora and another little 3gb dedicated partition for the pagefile(quicker/neater!).
DA_Mccoy
18 years ago
How about if you still have the current version of MS Works installed?

I haven't been in a big hurry to remove all the unused applications as space is not a need.

DA
mikie_gw
18 years ago
Removing the Office home/student doesnt seem to have any affect on Works.
I don't really use the Works programs but have been fiddling with a little of all of them. Everything seems to work fine.

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