Vista Tutorial - UK English Spell Checker?

Can anyone tell me please if it possible to enable Vista's Windows Mail to
spell check in UK English instead of the US variety? Can't believe it only
works with the four languages shown? Never a problem in OE.

I have Office XP installed. Is is perhaps possible to make Windows Mail use
the existing Microsoft UK dictionary and my own existing custom.dic?

TIA

V

Only the 4 languages were provided.
You should be able to open your other dictionary and copy the contents to
the Windows Mail one.

My Word dictionary is located at
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proof\Cutom.dic

The Windows Mail dictionary is located at
C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Mail\UserDictionary.lex

Both are regular text files, so you should be able to cut and paste.




"Victor Delta" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Can anyone tell me please if it possible to enable Vista's Windows Mail to
> spell check in UK English instead of the US variety? Can't believe it only
> works with the four languages shown? Never a problem in OE.
>
> I have Office XP installed. Is is perhaps possible to make Windows Mail
> use the existing Microsoft UK dictionary and my own existing custom.dic?
>
> TIA
>
> V

"Dave" <dave@beepbeep.com> wrote in message
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> Only the 4 languages were provided.
> You should be able to open your other dictionary and copy the contents to
> the Windows Mail one.
>
> My Word dictionary is located at
> C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proof\Cutom.dic
>
> The Windows Mail dictionary is located at
> C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
> Mail\UserDictionary.lex
>
> Both are regular text files, so you should be able to cut and paste.

Thanks Dave - that at least will help a bit.

However, after all the years and $$$$ of development, and based on the
starting point of OE, I simply can't believe that MS only came up with four
languages! Amazing.

Perhaps Vista's SP1 will include other dictionaries?

V

Some of us suspect that MS just threw Windows Mail together just to get it
out the door.
They have recently released a beta version called Windows Live Mail, which I
suspect is/will be their main focus.
http://get.live.com/betas/maildesktop_betas




"Victor Delta" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "Dave" <dave@beepbeep.com> wrote in message
> news:epiGUDxxHHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Only the 4 languages were provided.
>> You should be able to open your other dictionary and copy the contents to
>> the Windows Mail one.
>>
>> My Word dictionary is located at
>> C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proof\Cutom.dic
>>
>> The Windows Mail dictionary is located at
>> C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
>> Mail\UserDictionary.lex
>>
>> Both are regular text files, so you should be able to cut and paste.
>
> Thanks Dave - that at least will help a bit.
>
> However, after all the years and $$$$ of development, and based on the
> starting point of OE, I simply can't believe that MS only came up with
> four languages! Amazing.
>
> Perhaps Vista's SP1 will include other dictionaries?
>
> V

"Dave" <dave@beepbeep.com> wrote in message
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> Some of us suspect that MS just threw Windows Mail together just to get it
> out the door.


They say they are starting to work on WinMail again. Haven't seen any
results yet, though, and a lot of the fixes in WLM should be pretty easy to
port over.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com

Victor Delta shared these words of wisdom

> However, after all the years and $$$$ of development, and based on
the
> starting point of OE, I simply can't believe that MS only came up
> with four languages! Amazing.


What's even far more absurd:
WM uses it's own proofing system even if Office2007 is installed on the
machine.

I simply can not understand why there is not at least an *option* to
use Office dictionaries (as Outlook Express had as the default).

Rainald

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom

> They say they are starting to work on WinMail again. Haven't seen
any
> results yet, though, and a lot of the fixes in WLM should be pretty
> easy to port over.

Is there a forum somewhere (like those in Connect) for discussions on
the bugs and shortcomings of WM (which IMHO is not too bad!).

Rainald

"Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de> wrote in message news:434C5A1D-8F9B-4F48-904C-1957B59D5587@microsoft.com...
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom
>
>> They say they are starting to work on WinMail again. Haven't seen
> any
>> results yet, though, and a lot of the fixes in WLM should be pretty
>> easy to port over.
>
> Is there a forum somewhere (like those in Connect) for discussions on
> the bugs and shortcomings of WM (which IMHO is not too bad!).

This is it. Where have you been?
--
Gary VanderMolen

The problem with this is that the custom dictionary is only checked if the
word is not found in the standard dictionary. So, if a UK user types
"color" instead of "colour", it will never be flagged.

Gary VanderMolen

"Dave" <dave@beepbeep.com> wrote in message news:epiGUDxxHHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Only the 4 languages were provided.
> You should be able to open your other dictionary and copy the contents to
> the Windows Mail one.
>
> My Word dictionary is located at
> C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Proof\Cutom.dic
>
> The Windows Mail dictionary is located at
> C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
> Mail\UserDictionary.lex
>
> Both are regular text files, so you should be able to cut and paste.

"Rainald Taesler" <taesler@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:434C5A1D-8F9B-4F48-904C-1957B59D5587@microsoft.com...
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM shared these words of wisdom
>
>> They say they are starting to work on WinMail again. Haven't seen
> any
>> results yet, though, and a lot of the fixes in WLM should be pretty
>> easy to port over.
>
> Is there a forum somewhere (like those in Connect) for discussions on
> the bugs and shortcomings of WM (which IMHO is not too bad!).


This is the only public newsgroup on WM I know of.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com