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So what gives?!!?? You most likely may have installed Office 2007, and now, even though the spell checker in Microsoft Office 2007 is set to English, you can only spell check in French in Outlook Express. Oui?

Whatever! Anyhow, I had this happened to me before and remembered that I had to download an English dictionary.

Spell Checker for OE 2.1 is the answer.  Download it here ->

Very simple install and Presto! It’s there…. Just go under ‘Tools’ -> ‘Options’ -> ‘Spell’. There you have the option of changing the default dictionary and language for spell checker.

Hope this helped!!

So that is the issue that a client called in with. Of course, I researched it because I did not want to go in there blind. I searched and searched, and found nothing really. At least nothing that was going to help me. I read about Outlook’s ‘Exchange over the Internet’. Seemed interesting….

I read that the RPC over HTTP feature that Outlook has is meant more for clients that access their Exchange mail over a VPN.  This client was locally connected to his network, so it wasn’t what I was looking for… or was it?

I get to the client’s office and when I sit down, sure enough he had the ‘Exchange over the Internet’ enabled. So, I disabled it. Closed Outlook and re-opened it… no password prompts. I guess it’s good….

But here is a fix I did find at http://www.askdavetaylor.com/stop_outlook_from_asking_for_an_account_password.html.  Dave didn’t provide the answer, but a smart reader did. Here it is: (more…)