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Jeffrey Blais Posted on Dec 01, 2009
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I run Outlook Express 6.0, Unfortunately somehow the spellchecker got locked into french(France) I don't currently speak it nor do I write e-mails in it but the only choice in my options is french, anybody know how to get the @!#$@% programs spellchecker to offer English as a choice?

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    Jeffrey Blais Dec 05, 2009

    I actually solved the problem later that day, by going to Google and searching the problem, the most correct way to solve the problem was to run the install from an office 2003 disk or any of the office add-on programs such as Frontpage 2003 you don't have to actually load the program just run the custom install and re-install the dictionary module that will return your dictionary back to English

  • Jeffrey Blais
    Jeffrey Blais Dec 05, 2009

    there is a fix out there just use a prior version, say 2003, dictionary module by running a custom install of just that module, you don't actually have to load the prior program

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ok, the program does not have spell checker, it is useing the spell checker from MS Office.

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MicroSoft is aware of this problem and refuses to produce a fix. There sugestion is to upgrade your email program to Outlook 2007 or your OS to Vista or Windows 7. They say that this problem does not occure in the uptodate OS.

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