re: Outlook spellcheck Wednesday, November 19, 2003 at 2:08 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by David (1 messages posted) Thanks. I downloaded the dll as advised and just placed it in the Program files Outlook Express folder and BINGO, works AOK. I have XP and OE 6 plus an old Win 95 Works program with spell check. Thanks again. On Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 2:07 pm, Garth wrote: >How To: Fix spell checking in Outlook Express 6 > >If you are running Windows XP and are also using Microsoft Office 97, you may find >that spell checking does not work in Outlook Express 6.0. When you try to spell check >a message, you receive the message "an error occurred whilst the spelling was being >checked". The cause of this problem is a missing file which Outlook Express requires. > >Solution > >Obtain a copy of the file csapi3t1.dll and place it in the folder "Program Files\Common >Files\Microsoft Shared\Proof". > >Copies of this file may be extracted from the file mailnews.cab in an Internet Explorer >5.0 or 5.5 distribution set, the file win98_27.cab on a Windows 98 CD, or the file >Win_10.cab on a Windows Me CD. > >A copy may also be downloaded by clicking on this link. > >Note: the spell checker will only work if you have a recent version of Microsoft >Office. You didn't really expect Microsoft to support spell checkers in competitors' >Office packages, did you? > > > > Written in response to: re: Outlook spellcheck (Garth: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 2:07 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Outlook spellcheck (Mark Baker: Fri, Sep 20, 2002, 4:37 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (jcw: Fri, Sep 20, 2002, 5:32 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (TC: Sat, Sep 21, 2002, 10:42 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (Garth: Wed, Nov 13, 2002, 2:07 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (Norma: Sat, May 24, 2003, 1:14 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (amit: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 5:35 am) re: Outlook spellcheck (Dwain: Mon, Aug 18, 2003, 6:59 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (awp: Mon, Feb 2, 2004, 6:42 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (Ray Watson: Fri, Apr 9, 2004, 8:43 pm) re: Outlook spellcheck (Don Secard: Wed, Dec 15, 2004, 7:45 am) re: Outlook spellcheck (David: Wed, Nov 19, 2003, 2:08 am) re: Outlook spellcheck (D: Wed, Dec 22, 2004, 5:19 am) re: Outlook spellcheck (Elaine: Tue, Jun 21, 2005, 7:18 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum