I was under the impression that Outlook Express's spell checker used the
same dictionary as Word. If that's so, why don't some words which I've
added to the Word custom dictionary get recognised by Outlook Express? Is
it significant that all the words which aren't picked up have umlauts?

I'm using Word 2000 and Outlook Express v6.0, under Windows ME.

Many thanks,

Bert
http://www.bertcoules.co.uk