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Posted in Office, Microsoft on November 24, 2009 at 4:36 pm

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So I installed everything OK, even Office 2007 however I have a bit of a problem

or as Outlook Express would say:

So I installe everything Ok, évent Office 2007 how I have a bit of a problème

It seems to be a well known problem, Office 2007 messes up Outlook Express’s spell checker. And when I say messes up I mean removes all the spell checkers except French.

A Google recommended installing a 3rd party spell checker or re-installing my old Office as MS have no intention of fixing things. I tried to install Word from Office 97 but that didn’t help. I tried spell oe (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spelloe.html) but kept saying the installer wasn’t a valid program

I finally found Spell Checker For OE 2.1. I’m not sure if it is the same thing - I can’t get an author / copyright / about. I just hope it isn’t virusing my PC. AVG says it isn’t so lets hope!

I assume this is MS’s way of getting people away from OE…