I hope you notice this resurrection of an old thread...
What I wrote earlier was clearly nonsense. I remember reading a long time
ago that en-us and en-gb shared a dictionary, but that en-au and en-ca had
their own. This was probably in Office (2003?). By sheer chance I was
looking at the properties of the WLMail English spelling engine
(msspell3.dll) and noticed that it is in fact 4-language - us, gb, au and
ca. So, Peter, try changing lang=2057 to lang=3081. And any Canadians
watching, try changing it to 4105.
I may also have read recently that this Version 3 of MS proofing tools is
obsolescent - but then again I may have imagined it. Anno Domini.
--
Noel

"Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eNIYjTEIIHA.3956@xxxxxx

> Cool, thanks Noel. It worked a treat for this Aussie.
> --
> Cheers,
> Peter
> (Windows XP Pro SP2 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1365)
> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
> ---------------
> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:umw9st9HIHA.4684@xxxxxx
>

>> I meant to post this a long time ago, but forgot. If you're looking for
>> British English spell checking (so colour is accepted but color gets a
>> wiggly red line), open spell.ini (in %programfiles%/Windows
>> Live/Mail/Proof/prf0009/2) and change lang=1033 to lang=2057. en-gb and
>> en-us share the same dictionary, but en-au (and several other flavours)
>> have
>> their own. Pending an en-au dictionary, oz users might try this hack too.
>> --
>> Noel

You got my hopes up Noel, but sadly, 3081 only serves to disable the spell check. 4105 does work though for Canadians. I guess I will stick with 2057 for the time being. Thanks for the idea though, I did think about looking for the au language number. I have MS Office 2007 installed, but I cannot work out what I could use from it to give me au spell checking.
--
Cheers,
Peter
(Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
---------------
"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:usC$zlOLIHA.5160@xxxxxx

> I hope you notice this resurrection of an old thread...
> What I wrote earlier was clearly nonsense. I remember reading a long time
> ago that en-us and en-gb shared a dictionary, but that en-au and en-ca had
> their own. This was probably in Office (2003?). By sheer chance I was
> looking at the properties of the WLMail English spelling engine
> (msspell3.dll) and noticed that it is in fact 4-language - us, gb, au and
> ca. So, Peter, try changing lang=2057 to lang=3081. And any Canadians
> watching, try changing it to 4105.
> I may also have read recently that this Version 3 of MS proofing tools is
> obsolescent - but then again I may have imagined it. Anno Domini.
> --
> Noel
> -----------
> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eNIYjTEIIHA.3956@xxxxxx

>> Cool, thanks Noel. It worked a treat for this Aussie.
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>> (Windows XP Pro SP2 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1365)
>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
>> ---------------
>> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:umw9st9HIHA.4684@xxxxxx
>>

>>> I meant to post this a long time ago, but forgot. If you're looking for
>>> British English spell checking (so colour is accepted but color gets a
>>> wiggly red line), open spell.ini (in %programfiles%/Windows
>>> Live/Mail/Proof/prf0009/2) and change lang=1033 to lang=2057. en-gb and
>>> en-us share the same dictionary, but en-au (and several other flavours)
>>> have
>>> their own. Pending an en-au dictionary, oz users might try this hack too.
>>> --
>>> Noel

Sorry about that. I just tried it myself and confirmed that changing to
lang=3081 with en-au as input language simply disables spell check. This can
only mean that there's a glitch in the .dll. I'm copying this to Justin
[MSFT] just in case he's either not aware of it or knows a workaround.
I don't have Office 2007, so I can't help you there.
I tried the Canadian and found it to work, albeit a bit haphazardly. For
example, it accepted vice but not vise, color but not harbor, traveller and
paneled but not gallopper, gaol and jail, tire and tyre. Ah well.
--
Noel

"Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ut73uCBMIHA.4740@xxxxxx

> You got my hopes up Noel, but sadly, 3081 only serves to disable the
> spell check. 4105 does work though for Canadians. I guess I will stick
> with 2057 for the time being. Thanks for the idea though, I did think
> about looking for the au language number. I have MS Office 2007 installed,
> but I cannot work out what I could use from it to give me au spell
> checking.
> --
> Cheers,
> Peter
> (Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
> ---------------
> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:usC$zlOLIHA.5160@xxxxxx
>

>> I hope you notice this resurrection of an old thread...
>> What I wrote earlier was clearly nonsense. I remember reading a long time
>> ago that en-us and en-gb shared a dictionary, but that en-au and en-ca
>> had
>> their own. This was probably in Office (2003?). By sheer chance I was
>> looking at the properties of the WLMail English spelling engine
>> (msspell3.dll) and noticed that it is in fact 4-language - us, gb, au and
>> ca. So, Peter, try changing lang=2057 to lang=3081. And any Canadians
>> watching, try changing it to 4105.
>> I may also have read recently that this Version 3 of MS proofing tools is
>> obsolescent - but then again I may have imagined it. Anno Domini.
>> --
>> Noel
>> -----------
>> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:eNIYjTEIIHA.3956@xxxxxx

>

>>> Cool, thanks Noel. It worked a treat for this Aussie.
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>> Peter
>>> (Windows XP Pro SP2 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1365)
>>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>>> in
>>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
>>> ---------------
>>> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:umw9st9HIHA.4684@xxxxxx
>>>
>>>> I meant to post this a long time ago, but forgot. If you're looking for
>>>> British English spell checking (so colour is accepted but color gets a
>>>> wiggly red line), open spell.ini (in %programfiles%/Windows
>>>> Live/Mail/Proof/prf0009/2) and change lang=1033 to lang=2057. en-gb and
>>>> en-us share the same dictionary, but en-au (and several other flavours)
>>>> have
>>>> their own. Pending an en-au dictionary, oz users might try this hack
>>>> too.
>>>> --
>>>> Noel

Thanks Noel, you've done well.
--
Cheers,
Peter
(Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
"There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespeare
---------------
"Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OU7fQYpMIHA.5860@xxxxxx

> Sorry about that. I just tried it myself and confirmed that changing to
> lang=3081 with en-au as input language simply disables spell check. This can
> only mean that there's a glitch in the .dll. I'm copying this to Justin
> [MSFT] just in case he's either not aware of it or knows a workaround.
> I don't have Office 2007, so I can't help you there.
> I tried the Canadian and found it to work, albeit a bit haphazardly. For
> example, it accepted vice but not vise, color but not harbor, traveller and
> paneled but not gallopper, gaol and jail, tire and tyre. Ah well.
> --
> Noel
>
> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ut73uCBMIHA.4740@xxxxxx

>> You got my hopes up Noel, but sadly, 3081 only serves to disable the
>> spell check. 4105 does work though for Canadians. I guess I will stick
>> with 2057 for the time being. Thanks for the idea though, I did think
>> about looking for the au language number. I have MS Office 2007 installed,
>> but I cannot work out what I could use from it to give me au spell
>> checking.
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>> (Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
>> ---------------
>> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:usC$zlOLIHA.5160@xxxxxx
>>

>>> I hope you notice this resurrection of an old thread...
>>> What I wrote earlier was clearly nonsense. I remember reading a long time
>>> ago that en-us and en-gb shared a dictionary, but that en-au and en-ca
>>> had
>>> their own. This was probably in Office (2003?). By sheer chance I was
>>> looking at the properties of the WLMail English spelling engine
>>> (msspell3.dll) and noticed that it is in fact 4-language - us, gb, au and
>>> ca. So, Peter, try changing lang=2057 to lang=3081. And any Canadians
>>> watching, try changing it to 4105.
>>> I may also have read recently that this Version 3 of MS proofing tools is
>>> obsolescent - but then again I may have imagined it. Anno Domini.
>>> --
>>> Noel
>>> -----------
>>> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:eNIYjTEIIHA.3956@xxxxxx

>>

>>>> Cool, thanks Noel. It worked a treat for this Aussie.
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Peter
>>>> (Windows XP Pro SP2 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1365)
>>>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>>>> in
>>>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
>>>> ---------------
>>>> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:umw9st9HIHA.4684@xxxxxx
>>>>
>>>>> I meant to post this a long time ago, but forgot. If you're looking for
>>>>> British English spell checking (so colour is accepted but color gets a
>>>>> wiggly red line), open spell.ini (in %programfiles%/Windows
>>>>> Live/Mail/Proof/prf0009/2) and change lang=1033 to lang=2057. en-gb and
>>>>> en-us share the same dictionary, but en-au (and several other flavours)
>>>>> have
>>>>> their own. Pending an en-au dictionary, oz users might try this hack
>>>>> too.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Noel

>

Thanks. I haven't gone totally senile, it appears. Berit Benson [MSFT]
posted this some time ago:
"Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that shipped in
prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). When Office 2007 is
installed, it removes the older versions of the proofing tools."
It's a bit strange, then that a brand new app is relying on an obsolete set
of tools - unless I've misunderstood something again.
--
Noel

"Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eRgH82pMIHA.5244@xxxxxx

> Thanks Noel, you've done well.
> --
> Cheers,
> Peter
> (Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
> ---------------
> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OU7fQYpMIHA.5860@xxxxxx
>

>> Sorry about that. I just tried it myself and confirmed that changing to
>> lang=3081 with en-au as input language simply disables spell check. This
>> can
>> only mean that there's a glitch in the .dll. I'm copying this to Justin
>> [MSFT] just in case he's either not aware of it or knows a workaround.
>> I don't have Office 2007, so I can't help you there.
>> I tried the Canadian and found it to work, albeit a bit haphazardly. For
>> example, it accepted vice but not vise, color but not harbor, traveller
>> and
>> paneled but not gallopper, gaol and jail, tire and tyre. Ah well.
>> --
>> Noel
>>
>> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:ut73uCBMIHA.4740@xxxxxx

>>> You got my hopes up Noel, but sadly, 3081 only serves to disable the
>>> spell check. 4105 does work though for Canadians. I guess I will stick
>>> with 2057 for the time being. Thanks for the idea though, I did think
>>> about looking for the au language number. I have MS Office 2007
>>> installed,
>>> but I cannot work out what I could use from it to give me au spell
>>> checking.
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>> Peter
>>> (Windows Vista Home Premium with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606)
>>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of
>>> in
>>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
>>> ---------------
>>> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:usC$zlOLIHA.5160@xxxxxx
>>>
>>>> I hope you notice this resurrection of an old thread...
>>>> What I wrote earlier was clearly nonsense. I remember reading a long
>>>> time
>>>> ago that en-us and en-gb shared a dictionary, but that en-au and en-ca
>>>> had
>>>> their own. This was probably in Office (2003?). By sheer chance I was
>>>> looking at the properties of the WLMail English spelling engine
>>>> (msspell3.dll) and noticed that it is in fact 4-language - us, gb, au
>>>> and
>>>> ca. So, Peter, try changing lang=2057 to lang=3081. And any Canadians
>>>> watching, try changing it to 4105.
>>>> I may also have read recently that this Version 3 of MS proofing tools
>>>> is
>>>> obsolescent - but then again I may have imagined it. Anno Domini.
>>>> --
>>>> Noel
>>>> -----------
>>>> "Peter.R" <Peter.R@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:eNIYjTEIIHA.3956@xxxxxx
>>>
>>>>> Cool, thanks Noel. It worked a treat for this Aussie.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Peter
>>>>> (Windows XP Pro SP2 with Windows Live Mail 12.0.1365)
>>>>> "There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt
>>>>> of
>>>>> in
>>>>> your philosophy." - Shakespeare
>>>>> ---------------
>>>>> "Ildhund" <jnllb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>> news:umw9st9HIHA.4684@xxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>>> I meant to post this a long time ago, but forgot. If you're looking
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> British English spell checking (so colour is accepted but color gets
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> wiggly red line), open spell.ini (in %programfiles%/Windows
>>>>>> Live/Mail/Proof/prf0009/2) and change lang=1033 to lang=2057. en-gb
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> en-us share the same dictionary, but en-au (and several other
>>>>>> flavours)
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> their own. Pending an en-au dictionary, oz users might try this hack
>>>>>> too.
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Noel

>>