How do I change dictionary?

Windows Live mail is currently using English US as default spell checker. I
need it to use an Australian dictionary (UK would possibly suffice).

Tools, Options, Spelling does not list any English alternatives to English
(United States).
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Steve

How to add the UK English Spell Check Option in Windows Live Mail - The
Winhelponline Blog:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/ho...ows-live-mail/

or
open spell.ini (in %programfiles%/Windows Live/Mail/Proof/prf0009/2)
and change lang=1033 to lang=2057



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"AltaEgo" <Somewhere@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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UK is fairly easy. It's built into the US English dictionary, but
hidden.

For Australian, you'll likely need to find a special file (see below).
You might already have it if you have suitable Microsoft proofing tools
(e.g. Word/Office 2003 or earlier).

For English Spelling variations:

Edit in Notepad (copy/paste the following line into the Windows Explorer
address bar)

%programfiles%\Windows Live\Mail\Proof\prf0009\2\spell.ini

and enter desired lang= and change Lex= if needed

lang=1033 ; US
lang=2057 ; UK
lang=4105 ; Canada
lang=3081 ; Australia

Lex=MSSP3EN.LEX for: US, UK and Canada
Lex=MSSP3ENA.LEX for: Australia - file may not be included in WLM.
Copy to
%programfiles%\Windows Live\Mail\Proof\prf0009\2\MSSP3ENA.LEX from
%programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof\MSSP3ENA.LEX or other
source

Tools, Options, Spelling will still show "English (United States)" with
any of the above selected, but it will check with the correct variation.

If you would like the correct variation listed as well as the ability to
switch between variations, do the following:
- COPY (do not Move or Rename or else WLM will get upset) the folder
%programfiles%\Windows Live\Mail\Proof\prf0009\2
to either
%programfiles%\Windows Live\Mail\Proof\prfxxxx\1
or
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows
Live Mail\Proof\prfxxxx\1
where xxxx is the lang value in hexadecimal:
UK=prf0809, Canada=prf1009, Australia=prf0c09
- Make the appropriate spell.ini changes in the new folder as outlined
above.

Note: if copied to %userprofile% there will be an Uninstall option, but
not at %programfiles%


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"AltaEgo" <Somewhere@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you want to have the UK dictionary as an option see this link
It provides an explanation and how to....

Adding English(UK) as an additional Spell Checker in Windows Live Mail
http://liveunplugged.spaces.live.com...90CA!223.entry


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...winston
ms-mvp mail


"AltaEgo" <Somewhere@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:OQjyiM74IHA.2064@xxxxxx

Thank you. Although it now marks (for example) both realise and realize as
correct. I guess I should be happy it marks reelise as wrong!

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Steve

"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Realize" is correct. (þ

Cheers,

Earle

"AltaEgo" <Somewhere@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Earle Horton" <earleh_nospam_@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an HP laptop, with Win XP (SP3). It came with Microsoft Works as
a pre-installed program. I have installed Microsoft Office 2000
Professional, in preference to Works.

A search of my hard drive and the Office 2000 CDs identified suitable
DLL and LEX files at the following locations-

%programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Works Shared:
MSSPELL3.DLL
MSSP3EN.LEX (English for USA, Canada and UK)
MSSP3ENA.LEX (English - Australia)

%programfiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof:
MSSPELL3.DLL
MSSP3ES.DLL (Spanish)
MSSP3EN.LEX (English for USA, Canada and UK)
MSSP3ENA.LEX (English - Australia)
MSSP3ES.LEX (Spanish)
MSSP_FR.LEX (French)
MSSP_PFR.LEX (A different French Directory, perhaps ??)

These files are also available on the Office 2000 CDs (O9PRMCD01 and/or
O9PRMCD02)

If anyone has difficulty locating spell check programs for different
languages, a Google search identified the following download source for
various DLL and LEX files:

http://labcalc.phys.uniroma1.it/Shar...SSHARED/PROOF/

The only problem is deciding which files relate to which languages.
Furthermore, some languages seem to have dedicated DLL and LEX files.
For others, there is a LEX dictionary - but no DLL file. Perhaps these
languages use MSSPELL3.DLL, which seems to be a common file?

"Bob Lucas" <bob@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:g5hp9v$a70$1@xxxxxx This may help.

Microsoft Locale ID values
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912047.aspx

File Properties sometimes has version strings that tell you which language
the file is for. If the files are installed you may find this information
in a ".inf" file somewhere close. I am assuming that the ".dll" files are
parsers which find word boundaries and in some cases check grammar.

Office (at least) from 2000 to 2003 seems to have used the same proofing
tools and dictionaty format. For some languages such as Chinese, Hebrew,
Cyrillic alphabet based you may also need an additional "input method", but
if you have one of these chances are that you have the input method as part
of the operating system. Office 2007 French is a puzzle. I would guess
that Microsoft couldn't persuade the authors to convert to the new Office
2007 format. For versions from 2000 to 2003 there are "Proofing Tools"
software with proofing tools for 50+ languages installed. If you can find
one of these CDs for a reasonable price it is worth getting. I don't
presently know about inter-version compatibility, but I could test it.

Saludos cordiales,

Earle

Hi Michael - very helpful post - thank you.
I have 2 questions tho:

1)... Is there a way of only using the English dictionary (ie. only checks
'English' and not 'English' and 'English (American)')?

2)... Why does WLM, when you select the correct spelling from the suggestion
list change the font of the incorrect word to times new roman?

Thanks again
Gary



"Michael Santovec" wrote:

The choice of dictionary is governed by:

a) The default dictionary, if you have specified a default in
Tools/Options/Spelling
OR
b) The Windows input language for your computer, if you have ticked
the box marked "Check spelling in current input language"

Normally, Windows Live Mail will use one spelling dictionary at a time.
I don't know whether it is possible to use more than one dictionary for
a message that contains text in multiple languages (as per Microsoft
Outlook, which allows the user to identify different parts of the text
with the relevant language).

Turning to the choice of spellcheck directory, you have two
alternatives:

You can change the default English dictionary from English (United
States) to English (United Kingdom) or English (Canada). To do so, you
need to edit the "spell.ini" in "%programfiles%\Windows
Live\Mail\Proof\prf0009\2\" - and change the country code.

For English versions of WLMail, the country code is 1033 (English - US)
by default. You can continue to use the standard MSSP3EN.LEX dictionary
file (which includes the three variants), if you change the country code
in "spell.ini" to 2057 (English - UK) or 4105 (English - Canada).

If you adopt this option, the spell check menu in Windows Live Mail will
still list the English language spellchecker as English (United States).
However, WLMail will perform spell-checking exclusively in UK English or
Canadian English, as the case may be. However, you select different
variants easily, without editing "spell.ini".

The other alternative, which involves copying files to the
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\Live
Mail\Proof\prfxxxx\1"directory allows you to install the other language
variants as separate, standalone options. Then, each of the variants
will appear separately in the WLMail list of spell-check languages.

However, WLMail will still perform spell-checking exclusively in English
(US), English (UK) or English (Canadian), as the case may be. In other
words, it will always use the default spellchecker - or the Windows
input language, depending upon the way you have configured WLMail.



"Gary" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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