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Outlook Express 6 spelling checker does not work. Does anyone have any
ideas what to do? Yes the options is turn on in Outlook.
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doug

"Doug McIntosh" <> wrote in message
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> Outlook Express 6 spelling checker does not work. Does anyone have any
> ideas what to do? Yes the options is turn on in Outlook.
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> doug
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Doug, are you mutli-booting, or do you have access to a computer running XP
Pro SP2 with all the updates installed? If so, copy the entire contents of
Outlook Express from the XP SP2 drive to a folder in XP Pro x64's Program
Files (x86)\OE-32bit (you can name the OE-32 bit folder anything you
want, just don't try to copy it to the Outlook Express directory as the
files will be replaced by the OS right after you attempt to do that.) Now,
create link to the OE exec file on your desktop, and run the program from
there. You will see that spell check now works.


Wayne
P.S. Use at your own risk as this process is not supported, and actually
discouraged by some.

Thats because the Office spell checker is 32-bit and Outlook Express is
64-bit, you have wait until Office has native 64 bit version. I suggest
using an alternative such as Mozilla Thunderbird or spell checking your
e-mail messages in Microsoft Word.
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"Doug McIntosh" <> wrote in message
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> Outlook Express 6 spelling checker does not work. Does anyone have any
> ideas what to do? Yes the options is turn on in Outlook.
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> doug
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Office beta is coming in a few weeks. Guess we will find out if they work
together, or will it be like the Intellimouse programmers who don't care
about the x64 system.


"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <> wrote in message
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> Thats because the Office spell checker is 32-bit and Outlook Express is
> 64-bit, you have wait until Office has native 64 bit version. I suggest
> using an alternative such as Mozilla Thunderbird or spell checking your
> e-mail messages in Microsoft Word.
> --
> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
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> "Doug McIntosh" <> wrote in message
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>> Outlook Express 6 spelling checker does not work. Does anyone have any
>> ideas what to do? Yes the options is turn on in Outlook.
>> --
>> doug
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Yeah, I read in an issue of PC World back in February that the Office Team
has native 64-bit version in development. It could very well be true,
especially with the recent decision to move major products such as Exchange
12 (which is a part of the Office System) to 64 bit exclusively. I don't see
how certain apps would benefit from it though. I see, Excel, Access and
PowerPoint probably benefitting the most.
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"John Barnes" <> wrote in message
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> Office beta is coming in a few weeks. Guess we will find out if they work
> together, or will it be like the Intellimouse programmers who don't care
> about the x64 system.
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <> wrote in message
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>> Thats because the Office spell checker is 32-bit and Outlook Express is
>> 64-bit, you have wait until Office has native 64 bit version. I suggest
>> using an alternative such as Mozilla Thunderbird or spell checking your
>> e-mail messages in Microsoft Word.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
>> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>> FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
>>
>> "Doug McIntosh" <> wrote in message
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>>> Outlook Express 6 spelling checker does not work. Does anyone have any
>>> ideas what to do? Yes the options is turn on in Outlook.
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>>> doug
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You are correct, it doesn't work. Nor will it, given that OE is 64 bit, and
Office is still 32-bit. A 64 bit application can't call a 32-bit DLL. Once
we have a 64-bit Office, this should fix the problem.

I do not recommend trying to bypass this by using the suggestion from Wayne.
There are good reasons why there isn't a 32-bit version of OE included in
x64 Edition, and the MS folks on this forum have strongly suggested that
there could be data integrity issues with the use of 32-bit OE.


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Doug McIntosh wrote:
> Outlook Express 6 spelling checker does not work. Does anyone have any
> ideas what to do? Yes the options is turn on in Outlook.

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <> wrote in message
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> I do not recommend trying to bypass this by using the suggestion from
> Wayne. There are good reasons why there isn't a 32-bit version of OE
> included in x64 Edition, and the MS folks on this forum have strongly
> suggested that there could be data integrity issues with the use of 32-bit
> OE.
>
>
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> Charlie.

I read that as well. But, I never had any problems doing this. It may have
to do with their systems, their anti-virus programs or some such. Never had
a single issue doing this. Of course, I never click on links in sites to
use OE to email something. I only email people I know, or businesses that I
know their email address, and do that directly from OE. I am only
speculating here, as I wrote, I NEVER had a problem doing this.



Wayne

P.S. Also, if it does cause problems for someone, all they have to do is
delete the OE-32 folder, and go back to using the 64 bit version of OE, or
some other program. It won't hurt to try it.

If trying it corrupts the OE data files, some folks might think that was
unacceptable. I certainly would.

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Wayne Wastier wrote:
> P.S. Also, if it does cause problems for someone, all they have to do is
> delete the OE-32 folder, and go back to using the 64 bit version of OE, or
> some other program. It won't hurt to try it.

Wayne, I'm glad you haven't had problems. But I'd be very careful about
suggesting this as an alternative, since it did cause data corruption
problems in beta, which is why 32-bit OE was pulled. And why Darrell was
very clear that this is a bad idea. Personally, that's good enough for me,
and I'll happily live without spell checking in OE. It's not all that hard
to work around.

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Charlie.
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Wayne Wastier wrote:
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" <> wrote in message
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> -snip-.
>>
>> I do not recommend trying to bypass this by using the suggestion from
>> Wayne. There are good reasons why there isn't a 32-bit version of OE
>> included in x64 Edition, and the MS folks on this forum have strongly
>> suggested that there could be data integrity issues with the use of
>> 32-bit OE.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>
> I read that as well. But, I never had any problems doing this. It may
> have to do with their systems, their anti-virus programs or some such.
> Never had a single issue doing this. Of course, I never click on links
> in sites to use OE to email something. I only email people I know, or
> businesses that I know their email address, and do that directly from OE.
> I am only speculating here, as I wrote, I NEVER had a problem doing this.
>
>
>
> Wayne