[Rich-L79]

I'm running under Win XP Professional. I have Outlook Express 6 for e-mail. I also have Office 97 running which contains my Word, Excel, etc. Spell check works for Word and Excel and as I understand it OE uses the same dictionary. Perhaps XP and Office 97 don't see eye-to-eye since Office 97 is so much older. How can I direct Outlook Express to use the dictionaries that are in use for Word and Excel? As usual, the help sections of each are useless. They only talk about custom dictionaries.

TIA.

 

[Joeks]

Rich, go to TOOLS/Options/Spelling on OE and make sure the box indicating you want spell check is checked and go to the bottom of the same page and you can indicate which dictionary you want to use. Hope this helps.

 

[Rich-L79]

Been there, done that. That tools menu allows me to turn on and off the spell check feature and customize it to some extent, but the only connection it lets me make to a dictionary file is to a custom dictionary. How can I help it find the main dictionary file Word uses? Office 97 must put this dictionary file somewhere other than newer versions of Office.

When I write an e-mail and go to send it I get an error box saying that spell checking has failed and it asks me if I want to send anyway so it is at least trying to do the spell check.

 

[Gene McGill]

http://www.md4pc.com/questions/68.htm

If you need a copy of csapi3t1.dll , I can email it to you.

 

[Rich-L79]

Thanks! I'll try loading that file tonight!

 

[Rich-L79]

That did the trick! Thanks!