About checking spelling

If Microsoft Office is installed on your computer, you can use Microsoft Outlook Express to check spelling in your e-mail messages. By using Outlook Express, you can check spelling in three ways:

Automatically, as you type As you type, Outlook Express checks the text of the message and adds a red, wavy underline to indicate possible spelling errors. You can correct these errors one at a time as you compose the message.
Automatically, all at once Each time you send a message, Outlook Express checks the text of the message and warns you about possible spelling errors.
Manually, all at once Outlook Express checks the text of the message and warns you about possible spelling errors only when you click Spelling on the Tools menu.

Checking spelling as you type

Checking spelling all at once

Setting spelling preferences

Using a different spelling dictionary

Check spelling as you type

For this procedure to work, Microsoft Office must be installed on your computer.

Turn on automatic spelling checking.
When a red, wavy line appears under a word that you type, hold down CONTROL, and then click the word.
On the contextual menu, do one of the following:
- To change to a spelling that Microsoft Outlook Express suggests, click the spelling you want.
- To ignore this and all other occurrences of the word, click Ignore All.
- To add the word to your custom dictionary, click Add.
- To change your spelling preferences, click Spelling.

Setting spelling preferences

Checking spelling all at once

Check spelling all at once

For this procedure to work, Microsoft Office must be installed on your computer.

To check spelling manually, click Spelling on the Tools menu.
When Microsoft Outlook Express finds a possible spelling error, do one of the following:
- To ignore this occurrence of the word, click Ignore.
- To ignore this and all other occurrences of the word, click Ignore All.
- To change to a spelling Outlook Express suggests, click the word in the Suggestions box, and then click Change to replace only this instance of the word, or click Change All to replace all occurrences of the word.
- To add the word to your custom dictionary, click Add.


	If the spelling you want does not appear in the Suggestions box, type the correct spelling in the Not in Dictionary box, and then click Change.

Setting spelling preferences

Checking spelling as you type

Turn automatic spelling checking on or off

On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
On the Spelling tab, select or clear the Check spelling as you type check box.

Checking spelling as you type

Checking spelling all at once

Use a different spelling dictionary

On the Tools menu, point to Change Dictionary, and then click the dictionary you want.

Setting spelling preferences

Set spelling preferences

On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
On the Spelling tab, select the options you want.
For help on an option, click Show Balloons on the Help menu, and then point to the option.

Checking spelling as you type

Checking spelling all at once