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Outlook express- spellchecker

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by corsair90

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I've upgraded my system to XP from ME, all went well, even the updating my BIOS using DOS for the first time, but my question is there a way to obtain a spellcheck for the update without buying Word or Powerpoint, as you may all know that upgrading is not always an upgrade, my spellcheck worked and was always a part of outlook express and I sorely miss it, why didn't microsoft include it with the upgrade? Is it another marketing strategy to sell for the most part, unnessesary software to new users of XP? Any help with this would be greatly appriecated,
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by dmiles

I am using outlook express 6,and it has spell checking available,if it was not loaded at default,which may be the case
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Open Outlook Express
Click on Tools,select Options from the drop down list
Select the Spelling tab,at Settings select the box to activate spell check

by corsair90

Thank you but I tried to do just that, but the upgrade wizard told me in no uncertain terms that I would need word or powerpoint to load the dictionary needed for the spellcheck to work, I submitted my question at this site, and I remembered that Ihad microsoft's works and Money software that i did not use when i was using ME, well, works for ME loaded up just fine, updated itself, spellcheck works just fine now, plus I have Micro works and money to boot!!

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