atw: Re: Defaulting to spell checking in MS Outlook
- From: "Geoffrey Marnell" <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:34:30 +1100
Thanks Caz, that is the best help I've had.
Here's an oddity I just noticed. When I clicked REPLY to reply to your
message, the spell-checker was enabled. At the same time, I started a new
message: no spell-checking. The same signature in both cases.
Now, when I had my reply to you in focus and looked at the Language dialog,
the Do not check spelling or grammar checkbox was enabled. When I looked at
the same dialog when the new message was in focus, the Do not check spelling
or grammar checkbox was disabled.
Why on earth are settings changing behind my back depending on whether I am
sending a new mail or replying to a received mail?
More Micro-weirdness?
Cheers
Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
T: +61 3 9596 3456
F: +61 3 9596 3625
W: <http://www.abelard.com.au> www.abelard.com.au
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Caz.H
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:11 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Defaulting to spell checking in MS Outlook
Hi Geoffrey
I'm sure you've already discovered that this problem has plagued other users
and most have been bamboozled as to a solution.
Only thing that comes to mind is turning off the Word editor, that's if
you're using it for mail. Then deselect the spell/grammar box again and see
what happens.
Oddly, some people have identified that the fault might also be something to
do with inserting auto signatures, or having a default signature, whereby
spell check works below the signature block, but not above it. However,
this is still related to the styles and the Word editor, I think.. (Sorry,
don't use Outlook at home, so I can't experiment.) Apparently there are a
lot of people typing within the signature block, hence why the spell/grammar
check isn't applied. That is, the mail message is inadvertently within the
signature block - easy to understand how that would happen, but can't claim
I've ever had it happen.
Of course, you could also try "none" instead of using an auto signature, to
test out whether that's causing your problem, if so, then the Word styles
would be the root cause, assuming you're using the Word editor.
Other than that, you could makes sure that normal.dot has spell check set,
but I suspect that's not your problem.
Oh, and double check that you have selected a language and a dictionary in
your settings, although again, I'm sure you've got that covered. Just
trying to think of every little thing.
Sorry I can't be more useful, but that's all I can think of without being
able to do some fiddling about myself to create the error.
Regards
Carolyn
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Geoffrey Marnell <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks to everyone who has given me the exactly what the Outlook OLH says .
but I'm afraid it doesn't work for me.
Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
T: +61 3 9596 3456
F: +61 3 9596 3625
W: <http://www.abelard.com.au> www.abelard.com.au
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Suzanne
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:57 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Defaulting to spell checking in MS Outlook
From the Outlook toolbar (not Word) - Tools> Options> Spelling tab> General
options > ABC > Always check spelling before sending
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Marnell
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2009 5:00 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Defaulting to spell checking in MS Outlook
Hi austechies,
If you have been reading my recent emails, you may have gathered that I'm a
crap speller, and probably don't know how to turn on the spell-checker. Yes,
and no. I'm running MS Outlook 2003 on Windows XP, and every time I deselect
the "Do not check spelling and grammar" option, the option is selected by
default when I next open Outlook. And thus I send emails thinking the
spell-checker is on when it has bloody well turned itself off.
Has anyone got any ideas how to set spell-checking as the default? The OLH
is of absolutely no use.
Cheers
Geoffrey Marnell
Principal Consultant
Abelard Consulting Pty Ltd
T: +61 3 9596 3456
F: +61 3 9596 3625
W: <http://www.abelard.com.au> www.abelard.com.au
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Carolyn Hart
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