Dictionary/Spell Checks

Right boys n girls...........

First of all, I am in the UK

I use Microsoft Outlook (Office 2000 suite) for my e mails.

Within Outlook, I 'use Word as e-mail editor'

The dictionary for spell checks in Outlook AND Word are BOTH set to English (UK)

However, when REPLYING to an e mail, the spell check ALWAYS defaults to the English (US) dictionary, hence many words are highlighted for correction to the American spelling, which I have to tell it to ignore (it wont allow me to 'add' the word when I am replying)

When I create or forward an e mail, the UK dictionary is always the default and any new words it does not contain CAN be added when the spelling is questioned!

I have searched high and low in the options and settings for both Outlook and Word, to no avail - anyone have an idea?

Like I said, the dictionaries are set to English (UK) in both applications.

Why oh why does it default to the US version when replying???

Thanks in advance

Seany

 

A problem that existed with an earlier version of office may still be hanging around. Not sure.

In the registry (and the version number may be different for you but 10.0 is what I have with Office XP although there is an 8.0 section - just not much in it))

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/software/microsoft/office/10.0/outlook/options/spelling/

should be set for 2057\Normal for the UK I think. US is 1033\Normal

That should affect all occasions of spelling though and not just an outlook email reply.

Do most UK users with the same Office and Outlook version as yours do OK?

If no one posts a fix for you pretty quickly, I'd suggest running this one by Microsoft support. Should be a free support call.