Spellcheck

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The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to
use English English?
TIA
 
housetrained said:
The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to
use English English?
TIA
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You can't.
The best you can do is gradually add real English spellings
but that still leaves the problem of spellcheck accepting
foreign English spellings.

There appears to be no chance of this situation being resolved
in WM but it may be fixed in future releases of WLM.

http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas
 
housetrained said:
The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it
to use English English?
TIA
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You can't! Microsoft thinks we should all use incorrect spelling in our
e-mails and newsgroup postings.
 
Thanks everyone. But this is just another example of England being flushed
down the pipe. What if we asked HRH Bill for a United Kingdom English? :-)
 
Neil Harley said:
You can't! Microsoft thinks we should all use incorrect spelling in our e-mails and newsgroup postings.
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Don't ascribe malice to something that's merely due to time constraints
and/or lack of resources. If you were MS, and you only had enough
time to set up WM with 4 languages, which ones would you choose?
In a perfect world, they would have held off releasing Vista until
everything was perfect, but you know how that goes. Timelines turn
into deadlines.
 
Gary said:
Don't ascribe malice to something that's merely due to time constraints
and/or lack of resources. If you were MS, and you only had enough
time to set up WM with 4 languages, which ones would you choose?
In a perfect world, they would have held off releasing Vista until
everything was perfect, but you know how that goes. Timelines turn
into deadlines.
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And there is no need to jump to conclusions with regards to me ascribing
malice. That is not what I am doing and I fully understand the time
constraints placed up developers. But ... do you not think MS has had
long enough to come up with a spell check for English?
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
Don't ascribe malice to something that's merely due to time constraints
and/or lack of resources. If you were MS, and you only had enough
time to set up WM with 4 languages, which ones would you choose?
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UK English would have been number one since it is the
international language of business and used by the vast majority
of English users.

Then Spanish, Chinese and... err... Navaho.
 
Julian said:
UK English would have been number one since it is the
international language of business and used by the vast majority
of English users.
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Perhaps, but Redmond's home office being located in the US carries
lot of weight. ;-)
Also, WM isn't a business-level mail program such as Outlook.
 
Gary VanderMolen said:
Perhaps, but Redmond's home office being located in the US carries
lot of weight. ;-)
Also, WM isn't a business-level mail program such as Outlook.
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Of course, but you did invite us to play Fantasy Spellcheck! ;-)
 
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