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

MS Office Outlook will work with spell check when MS Word (of the identical
version) is used as the E-mail editor. Your impression was just that!
"Bert Coules" wrote in message
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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

Outlook Express *does* use the Office proofing tools, and I think it may
well be significant that words with umlauts are being ignored; perhaps a
change in the Format | Encoding setting (or a change from Plain Text to Rich
Text) would make a difference.

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"Chuck Davis" newsgroup at anthemwebs dot com wrote in message
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MS Office Outlook will work with spell check when MS Word (of the
identical
version) is used as the E-mail editor. Your impression was just that!
"Bert Coules" wrote in message
...
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

Suzanne,

Thanks for the reply.

...perhaps a change in the Format | Encoding setting (or a
change from Plain Text to Rich Text) would make a difference.

In the settings in Outlook Express, you mean? Unfortunately, I already have Encoding set to Western European and Rich Text selected. It doesn't seem to help.

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