UK English spell checker.

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Colin shared these words of wisdom:
Does anyone know how to get Windows Mail to check spelling using UK
English?
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Some folks in the state of Washington?

Nothing in sight!!

What IMHO would be the most urgent thing to do:
Imply pressure on MS to open an interface for using the Office
dictionaries in WinMail.

The situation now is truly grotesque:
I can choose "English (Jamaica)" as well as some versions of Hindu and
Afrikaans in any Office 2007 app but I can not use anything but just
*4* (in words: "four") languages in WinMail.
I can have a dozen of different User-dictionaries in Office, but just
*one* primitive user-dic in WinMail where I'm always prompted if a word
well preserved in the Office dictionaries has to be added again.
Awful, simply awful if one needs a certain vocabulary (be it the
chemical industry, the Law business or in Rocket Science).

Rainald
P.S. An even more important issue with WinMail is that one can not
replace the "Contacts" application (the WAB successor) by the Outlook
Contacts (as was possible with OE and Outlook up to OL2003).
Wasn't it that serious, I'd call it ridiculous.
 
Colin said:
Does anyone know how to get Windows Mail to check spelling using UK
English?
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It's not a show stopper, simply "add" the words during spell check, that the
mercans spell incorrectly, favourites, colour, center etc
 
While waiting for MS to get their act together try this:

Global Spellchecker can check the spelling and/or display the meaning of any
text that you can select within any application. It uses the MS Word
dictionary and thesaurus as its reference.

It works very well in Vista/Windows mail. It only does a couple of words at
a time though, so do your normal US english spell check then zoom in on those
US words that bug you - copy them to the clicpboard then hit Global Spell
Checker.

Kenqld

http://www.shaplus.com/spell-checker/gsdownload.htm
 
It is easier to add the UK English spelling to the spell checker. I do it
all of the time.. :-)
 
Hard to believe that MS is unaware that all the English-speaking world except
the precious US is on British English..why should we have to 'ADD' to make
this dumb thing work properly? Even in Canada it's 'labour' 'traveller'
'cheque'..get with it MS for Pete's sake...
 
Hard to believe you don't know that Microsoft headquarters
and most of their programmers are located in the US.
Why wouldn't MS favor their home country?
 
However we English did give our language to the world, and look what you've
done with it!!!
 
It's called improvement. :-)
To me, 'center' versus 'centre' sounds more correct logically and phonetically.
 
I'm not sure what I would be downloading here.

As an American writing emails to Brits more often than not, I want to know
whether I am spelling UK or US. I can't always remember. Outlook Express had
the UK option, so I am surprise it isn't on Windows Vista Mail.
 
Not sure what your question is. The only way to get the free UK spell checking
is to upgrade to Windows Live Mail.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


Jane said:
I'm not sure what I would be downloading here.

As an American writing emails to Brits more often than not, I want to know
whether I am spelling UK or US. I can't always remember. Outlook Express had
the UK option, so I am surprise it isn't on Windows Vista Mail.
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Imho you are better off using our colonial spelling than trying to fake it
using British spelling. If you try to masquerade as a Brit they will catch
you. Otoh if you use American spelling you can also use this as an excuse
for the occasional mistake.

Earle

Jane said:
I'm not sure what I would be downloading here.

As an American writing emails to Brits more often than not, I want to know
whether I am spelling UK or US. I can't always remember. Outlook Express
had
the UK option, so I am surprise it isn't on Windows Vista Mail.
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Dear Colin

What all these Mercans will never understand, is that a true Brit would
simply have answered "No".

Dave
Gawd bless yer!
 
If I understand this correctly, I cannot get a UK English spellchecker on
Windows Mail - all I can do is keep adding UK spellings of words to the US
dictionary, but I can't stop US spellings coming out as correct. If I was
French or Spanish I could get Mail to spell check in my own language, but as
I'm English I can't.

As for moving to Windows Live Mail as a solution, this seems like an
intrusive marketing plan to encourage takeup of LiveMail in the UK.

Can anyone tell me if this problem is fixed with Windows 7, or still an issue?
 
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