Mark Cassino wrote:
> I'm a few weeks into using a new computer with Windows x64 on it, and I just
> now realize that I have no spell check in Outlook Express. When I hit F7 I
> get a window that says an error occured while checking the spelling.
>
> Does Outlook Express use the spell checker from MS Office? And is this
> error due to an incompatability between 64 bit OE and 32 bit MS Office?
> (I'm actually using Office 97 - never saw a need to upgrade. So maybe that
> is part of the problem.)
>
> I'm assuming that short of getting a 64 bit version of office (if it
> exists), or figuring out how to run 32 bit OE on x64, spell check won't
> work. Is that accurate - or is there some other problem here?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
Outlook Express has never had spell-checking capabilities of its
own. Instead, it has always relied upon the presence of other Microsoft
applications, such as the Office Suite, Word, or the Works _Suite_
(which includes Word, not the regular Works). Unfortunately, though,
the 64-bit version of OE cannot use the spell-checking feature of the
32-bit Office applications. You can either wait for 64-bit versions of
the Office applications (for which Microsoft has yet to announce any
plans of developing), seek out a third-party spell-checker that works
with the 64-bit version of OE, or use a third-party email and news
client, such as Thunderbird, that has its own spell-checking capability
built-in.
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