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Spellcheck in OutlookExpress

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Outlook Express won’t Spellcheck unless MS Office is installed.
Is there a fix for this so I can use another Office program. Such as OpenOffice org or PCPro suite.
And still have spellcheck in OutlookEpress.

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You can add spell check to OE several ways.

Instead of installing Office, you can install Works.

Then, there are a number of 3rd party utilities.

Here is a link to 1:

http://www.geocities.com/vampirefo/

Chas

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WARNING : Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

For information about how to edit the registry, view the “Changing Keys and Values” Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the “Add and Delete Information in the Registry” and “Edit Registry Data” Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT or Windows 2000, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

To resolve this issue, use Registry Editor to verify that the value data in the SharedFilesDir registry value contains a trailing backslash:

Click Start , click Run , type Regedt32 , and then click OK .

Double-click to expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder, expand the Software folder, and then expand the Microsoft folder.

Double-click to expand the Shared Tools folder, and then click the SharedFilesDir value.

On the Edit menu, click Modify .

Type C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ in the Value Data box, and then click OK .

Quit Registry Editor.

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Sorry but those values are allready there

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