Spell Checking does not work in Outlook Express
(Most of the information on this page is courtesy of
Frank Saunders MS-MVP)
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First of all, do you have a program with spell checking on your system? Outlook
Express itself does not support spell checking but instead calls the spell check
feature from a program such as MSWord.
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Is spell checking enabled? Go to Tools>Options>Spelling and make sure
all the boxes are checked.
If all of the above is OK proceed through the rest of this page.
If you are using Windows XP;
You are probably missing CSAPI3T1.DLL in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\PROOF
You can expand it from CSAPI3T1.DL_ in the \i386 directory on your WinXP CD.
Go to Start | Run and type this command:
expand x:\i386\CSAPI3T1.DL_ C:\CSAPI3T1.DLL
Where x: is your CD drive. Then move it from the root directory of C: to the PROOF
folder. Some people also have to put it in the Outlook Express program folder.
If you do have a compatible spell checker installed
then please see these articles which also apply to OE6:
If you do not have a compatible spell checker
try these links;
Free spell checker for Outlook Express
http://www.quinion.com/mqa/spell.htm
Tiny Spell Checker
http://www.megspace.com/computers/tinyspell/
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