Spell Check Settings

[Bob Horton]

Hi!

I apologize in advance if this is something that is common knowledge, but I
have not been able to hit on the magic Google word combination to find my
answer if such is the case.

I use Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 as my email editor. The machine runs XP
SP2. All updates for all programs are in place.

In my spell check settings, I have always had the settings set to check
spelling before sending the message and to ignore the original text in
replies and forwards. Recently it has started to check the original text as
well. I have tried "cycling through" the settings (un-checking the "check
original text" option, closing Outlook), restarting, re-checking the tick
box, closing Outlook, then re-starting) with no joy. I have also tried this
process with a reboot instead of just closing Outlook. Again no joy. I
suspect a corrupt registry setting but don't know where to look. Any
suggestions are appreciated.

TIA.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Outlook 2003 writes back to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Spelling


FWIW, I don't use Word as my e-mail editor so I'm not sure if Word settings
influence spell checking behavior.

 

[Bob Horton]

Outlook 2003 writes back to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Spelling


FWIW, I don't use Word as my e-mail editor so I'm not sure if Word
settings influence spell checking behavior.

Here are the current settings from my registry. I don't think I see a key
that intuitively looks like the right one. Again, TIA for any help:

Key Name:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Spelling
Class Name: <NO CLASS>
Last Write Time: 8/9/2006 - 11:33 AM
Value 0
Name: Check
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1

Value 1
Name: UseAutoCorrect
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x1

Value 2
Name: Speller
Type: REG_SZ
Data: 1033\Normal

Value 3
Name: SpellDlgDX
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x139

Value 4
Name: SpellDlgDY
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0xffffffb2

 

[Guest]

It will observe your settings only once, so if you reopen to edit the
message, the whole message will be rechecked. I just select Cancel when it
comes up and select Send Anyway.

 

[Bob Horton]

It will observe your settings only once, so if you reopen to edit the
message, the whole message will be rechecked. I just select Cancel when it
comes up and select Send Anyway.

Unfortunately, that isn't my problem. It checks the entire message the
first time it's opened (for reply, forward, or anything else). I tried the
detect/repair function with no joy. The funny thing is that this just
started happening. I'm not sure that it's relevant (and less sure that it's
even true), but there is a chance that at some time in the process I may
have selected the "use Word for rich text" check box. It is not selected
now. Is that one of these keys? If not, if someone could point me to that
I'd try changing its value just for grins. Again, TIA, as this is a major
pain given the number of emails I handle combined with my poor typing skills

 

[Bob Horton]

Unfortunately, that isn't my problem. It checks the entire message the
first time it's opened (for reply, forward, or anything else). I tried
the detect/repair function with no joy. The funny thing is that this just
started happening. I'm not sure that it's relevant (and less sure that
it's even true), but there is a chance that at some time in the process I
may have selected the "use Word for rich text" check box. It is not
selected now. Is that one of these keys? If not, if someone could point
me to that I'd try changing its value just for grins. Again, TIA, as this
is a major pain given the number of emails I handle combined with my poor
typing skills

Just "bumping" this post to see if there are any ideas out there. It never
used to check the whole email string but now does. It's not something that
I can identify that I have changed on my end. Very perplexing and annoying.

Again, TIA for any further suggestions.

 

[Guest]

Bob, have you had any joy finding the answer to this?
I'm having the same problem.