MS Outlook Express will work with the spell checkers of MS Word, MS Excel and MS Powerpoint. Why not with the spell checker of Open Office? Or is there a way?
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[Solved] Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
[Solved] Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
Last edited by Hagar Delest on Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:10 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
Because MS products are designed to work with MS products and not with anything else.RLH wrote:MS Outlook Express will work with the spell checkers of MS Word, MS Excel and MS Powerpoint. Why not with the spell checker of Open Office?
See section 5 here: [Tutorial] Spell check and Language configurationRLH wrote:Or is there a way?
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Re: Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
Hagar wrote that MS products only work with MS products. Not true. Open office Writer, Calc etc. can be used by MS Word, Excel etc. so again is there a way for Open Office spell checker to be used with MS Outlook express?
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Re: Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
Really? Tell me more.Open office Writer, Calc etc. can be used by MS Word, Excel etc
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Re: Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
Imagine that the customer is the application who wants the spell check. As there are many applications on your machine, there are many customers.RLH wrote:so again is there a way for Open Office spell checker to be used with MS Outlook express?
The supplier is the one who provides the spell checking service.
I guess that it's the customer who asks the supplier for such a service. The supplier can't know which customer will ask for its service.
Here, customer = Outlook Express and supplier = OOo spell checking (or even its material, i.e. the dictionary files).
So please ask OE support when they'll implement the OOo (Hunspell IIRC) spell checking! Firefox and Thunderbird do that (under GNU/Linux, I just need links to the dictionary files, no need to copy them).
NB: I'm rather interested in the OE support team answer. Feel free to post it here.
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Re: Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
Sorry, I was wrong about ms office and open office being otherwise compatible. I've gone back to ms office and forgeting about open office as all my previous doucuments are created with ms office.Villeroy wrote:Really? Tell me more.Open office Writer, Calc etc. can be used by MS Word, Excel etc
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Re: [Solved] Using OpenOffice Spell Checker with Outlook Express
I think confusion has crept in here.
OpenOffice.org can read and write Microsoft .doc and .xls and ppt files. Microsoft Office cannot read OOo native file formats though (.odt and .ods). So you can edit your old documents, that's not a problem.
Expecting a Microsoft application to use a non-Microsoft or non-Microsoft approved & sanctioned component like a spell checker won't work. That's the old issue of the round peg and the square hole.
OpenOffice.org can read and write Microsoft .doc and .xls and ppt files. Microsoft Office cannot read OOo native file formats though (.odt and .ods). So you can edit your old documents, that's not a problem.
Expecting a Microsoft application to use a non-Microsoft or non-Microsoft approved & sanctioned component like a spell checker won't work. That's the old issue of the round peg and the square hole.
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