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Posted by Kim on September 18, 2007, 8:44 am
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Thanks for the info. It is much appreciated. Working on it now!
Kim
"StephenB" wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >I just purchased a pc with Vista, set up Verizon with MSN and when sending
> >an email it spell checks in French not English. Verizon has sent me to their
> >MSN tech whose sent me to Microsoft whose sent me to MSN whose sent me back
> >to Verizon who won't answer any questions.
>
> I just did a search of the MSN.Discussion newsgroup and found two threads for
> this exact problem:
>
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?query=spell+check&dg=microsoft.public.msn.discussion&cat=en_US_029dc2aa-43db-4aab-96cb-b43ef9773184&lang=en&cr=US&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us
> The gist of it is that it is caused by an incomptibility between MSN Explorer
> and Word 2007's dictionary.
>
> In July, a post was made indicating that it was fixed in the latest version of
> MSN Explorer. It is possible that your branded version of MSN Explorer is not
> fixed yet.
>
> I'm going to paste a section from the February thread, where Peter F.
> recommended that the solution was to install a free spell checker -
> "Vampirefo:
> http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952
>
> TinySpell:
> http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ ; (Checks the spelling as you type).
>
> Or from:
> http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80"
>
> An alternative is to install the Dictionary from an Office 2003 installation,
> though I'm not sure how you'd manage that.
> -steve
>
>
> --
> Stephen Boots
> MVP Windows Live
> Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
> sboots@mvps.org
>
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