Gerald, I don't have the problem you were confronted with, because I'm using OE 6 and, I guess more relevantly, Word 2000, which I find more manageable in several ways than the versions that have succeeded it. More manageable with Jaws, I mean. But I don't understand what this is that you've downloaded and installed. Is it a different version of Outlook Express that I've never heard of, thinking that Version 6 is still the most recent one, now supplanted by a new email client roughly equivalent to it that runs with Vista? Or is it a spell check utility that comes from somewhere other than Microsoft and is meant to restore full spell check functionality to Outlook Express if you've installed Office 2007 or Word 2007 and thus disabled all but the French option, for some unexplained reason? As you can see, I haven't understood this thread very well, and I'd like to. Thanks. And glad you've found a solution. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave 'SqueezeBox' Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Changing default language in OE Spelling Check Please give me the URL to where I can get this. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: JFW list Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Changing default language in OE Spelling Check Problem solved. I downloaded and installed Spell Checker for OE 2.1, and it works fine. Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ryan MacIsaac To: jfw@freelists .org Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:36 PM Subject: RE: Changing default language in OE Spelling Check Have you installed Microsoft Office 2007 on your system? If you have, this is why you only see the French option when using the spell check in Outlook Express. The spell checker that installs with Office 2007 is not compatible with OE. Your options are to use a third party spell checker for OE or downgrade to Office 2003. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Levy Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:55 PM To: JFW list Subject: Changing default language in OE Spelling Check Hi fellow listers. I just tried the Spelling Check in Outlook Express for the first time, and it flagged almost every word in my message as misspelled, even though they were, in fact, all spelled correctly. So I went to the Spelling page of the Options dialog of the Tools menu, and discovered the cause of the problem: the Language Combo Box lists French as the one and only default. Since there is no list of other languages to choose from in this combo box, how can I change the default language to English so that the Spelling Check works properly? Thanks, or should I say "merci". -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx