Dutch Spellcheck

Hi,
Is there a dictionary addon for spell checking in Dutch? If not, can
someone suggest a program so I can spell check in Dutch within Windows Live
Mail?

Thanks for your time,
Alice

Sorry, I'm not aware of any Dutch spell checker for WLM.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"Alice" <alyce1949@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:E7F99C8A-F87E-4868-AC48-41A0E8F4E6B5@xxxxxx

If you have Office (97-2003) Proofing Tools for Dutch - or could get your
hands on them - then the following might work for you. Office 2007 is no
good, because the proofing tools are a new Vista variety that don't work
with WLMail. What follows applies to XP, but I think it also works in Vista.

Extra spellcheckers are installed in a folder called Proof in
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail.
In there is a separate folder for each language, the name being something
like prf000C. The last two characters of this are the last two of the
Language ID in hex*, so FR-FR which has Language ID 1036 (40C in hex) lives
in prf000C. Inside the prf00xx folder is another one called 1. So:
(1) Create these folders
(2) Locate your Office proofing tools: mine are in %programfiles%\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof.
(3) Locate the spelling engine and lexicon for your language of choice. They
will be called something like MSSP3FR.DLL and MSSP3FR.LEX. Copy them to your
new folder (%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows
Live Mail\Proof\prf00xx\1.
(4) Open Notepad and type in:
[Spellchecker]
Engine=MSSP3FR.DLL
Lex=MSSP3FR.LEX
Lang=1036

using the names of the two files you copied for the Engine and Lex bits, and
the appropriate Language ID on the last line.
(5) Save this text file as (select "All files" in the Save as dialogue box)
spell.ini in your folder called 1.
(6) Restart WLMail and set your input language to the one you have just
installed. Check under Options > Spelling that you have selected "Check
spelling in current input language" at the bottom of the page. Whilst you're
on that page, you should see your new language shown as Installed.


No guarantees that it will work for you, but I just installed Danish and
Swedish spellcheckers successfully. Have fun!


* See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221435 for a list which helpfully
gives the hex equivalents.
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Noel



"Alice" <alyce1949@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok!
Thanks for your time,
Alice

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OITa7I4hIHA.4712@xxxxxx

You're welcome.

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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)


"Alice" <alyce1949@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:EDFC21BF-8595-474A-A3E7-8A050B5ADD5C@xxxxxx