Dorothy, This is how it is when you're using the office 2007 spell checker. This spell checker supports Windows Mail rather than outlook Express. OE took its spell checking from compatible versions of Microsoft Word. Word 2007 is, unfortunately, not compatible with outlook Express. You (or your support person) look for SpellOE, or any independent spell checker that works with outlook Express 6.x. your other alternatives are to upgrade Outlook Express to Windows Mail, or yuse Outlook 2007 as your email program instead. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy" <dorothy.darke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:06 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: emails Hi Mary No problem, only pleased we could help. I have just got a new computer and the spell checker in Outlook Express is in french. There are no other choices whereas on my old one there was a list of them. We are having a bit of a problem trying to get english UK as the french takes an absolute age to do as it goes through each word. Someone on this list may have an inclin how to put this problem right!!! Cheers, Dorothy.