Vista - Spellcheck

The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to
use English English?
TIA

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"housetrained" <housetrained@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to
> use English English?
> TIA

You can't.
The best you can do is gradually add real English spellings
but that still leaves the problem of spellcheck accepting
foreign English spellings.

There appears to be no chance of this situation being resolved
in WM but it may be fixed in future releases of WLM.

http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas

Hi,

You can't, but you can use the custom dictionary. Go to this link for full details on Spell Checker. Scroll down a bit for how to add a word. You'll just need to keep adding them as you go along for the ones that are not already in the dictionary.

Windows Mail Spell Check

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to
> use English English?
> TIA
>
> --
> John the West Ham fan
> housetrained@hotmail.com
> <><

housetrained wrote:
> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it
> to use English English?
> TIA
>

You can't! Microsoft thinks we should all use incorrect spelling in our
e-mails and newsgroup postings.

Thanks everyone. But this is just another example of England being flushed
down the pipe. What if we asked HRH Bill for a United Kingdom English? :-)

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"housetrained" <housetrained@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to
> use English English?
> TIA
>
> --
> John the West Ham fan
> housetrained@hotmail.com
> <><

"Neil Harley" <nomail@home.com> wrote in message news:ukLOhf0qHHA.4548@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> housetrained wrote:
>> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to use English English?
>> TIA
>>
>
> You can't! Microsoft thinks we should all use incorrect spelling in our e-mails and newsgroup postings.

Don't ascribe malice to something that's merely due to time constraints
and/or lack of resources. If you were MS, and you only had enough
time to set up WM with 4 languages, which ones would you choose?
In a perfect world, they would have held off releasing Vista until
everything was perfect, but you know how that goes. Timelines turn
into deadlines.
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Gary VanderMolen

Gary VanderMolen wrote:
> "Neil Harley" <nomail@home.com> wrote in message news:ukLOhf0qHHA.4548@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> housetrained wrote:
>>> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to use English English?
>>> TIA
>>>
>> You can't! Microsoft thinks we should all use incorrect spelling in our e-mails and newsgroup postings.
>
> Don't ascribe malice to something that's merely due to time constraints
> and/or lack of resources. If you were MS, and you only had enough
> time to set up WM with 4 languages, which ones would you choose?
> In a perfect world, they would have held off releasing Vista until
> everything was perfect, but you know how that goes. Timelines turn
> into deadlines.

And there is no need to jump to conclusions with regards to me ascribing
malice. That is not what I am doing and I fully understand the time
constraints placed up developers. But ... do you not think MS has had
long enough to come up with a spell check for English?

"Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Neil Harley" <nomail@home.com> wrote in message
> news:ukLOhf0qHHA.4548@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> housetrained wrote:
>>> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it
>>> to use English English?
>>> TIA
>>>
>>
>> You can't! Microsoft thinks we should all use incorrect spelling in our
>> e-mails and newsgroup postings.
>
> Don't ascribe malice to something that's merely due to time constraints
> and/or lack of resources. If you were MS, and you only had enough
> time to set up WM with 4 languages, which ones would you choose?

UK English would have been number one since it is the
international language of business and used by the vast majority
of English users.

Then Spanish, Chinese and... err... Navaho.

"Julian" <Julianlzb87@gmail.com> wrote in message news:EA7036F1-F269-4E59-B42C-AD85349E33DE@microsoft.com...
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>
> "Gary VanderMolen" <gary@NoMail.invalid> wrote in message news:uul8St4qHHA.4020@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> "Neil Harley" <nomail@home.com> wrote in message news:ukLOhf0qHHA.4548@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> housetrained wrote:
>>>> The spell-check in vista mail uses American English. How do I force it to use English English?
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can't! Microsoft thinks we should all use incorrect spelling in our e-mails and newsgroup postings.
>>
>> Don't ascribe malice to something that's merely due to time constraints
>> and/or lack of resources. If you were MS, and you only had enough
>> time to set up WM with 4 languages, which ones would you choose?
>
> UK English would have been number one since it is the
> international language of business and used by the vast majority
> of English users.

Perhaps, but Redmond's home office being located in the US carries
lot of weight. ;-)
Also, WM isn't a business-level mail program such as Outlook.
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Gary VanderMolen