Microsoft office 2007

[Buckeye Shooter]

I bought MS Office 2007. It was on sale for $99 at Best Buy. Was a little difficult to run the programs with the VISTA like navigation, but I got the hang of it.

What really fried my A$$ was this. In the past, if you had MS WORD installed in your system, MS outlook used it as your spell checker when doing e-mail. Mine outlook uses the French dictionary (WTF) amd MS informs me there is no fix, just an add on program of some kind.

I was so fried that I refused to take the time to even answer the support e-mails from MS. I just cut and paste an email to WORD to check it if I need to. Anyone else have this little problem?

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[Troy (WA)]

I use neoOffice for Mac for my word processing needs. They have a program called openOffice for PC. You can download it for free/donation. It works great and best of all it is free. Did I mention it is free? Plus it feels good giving MS/Gates the finger

[Ramboueille]

I bought MS Office 2007. It was on sale for $99 at Best Buy. Was a little difficult to run the programs with the VISTA like navigation, but I got the hang of it.

What really fried my A$$ was this. In the past, if you had MS WORD installed in your system, MS outlook used it as your spell checker when doing e-mail. Mine outlook uses the French dictionary (WTF) amd MS informs me there is no fix, just an add on program of some kind.

I was so fried that I refused to take the time to even answer the support e-mails from MS. I just cut and paste an email to WORD to check it if I need to. Anyone else have this little problem?

Yep, saw that before, that's why it's $99 and Best Buy knows it.

[0311Shooter]

Have been using Thunderbird Email (from Firefox) for awhile now and it is so much easier than anything MS. It, like FF, has a built in spell checker.

[GPlourde]

+1 on OpenOffice, works great, and it's easy to use.

[phil441]

Have been using Thunderbird Email (from Firefox) for awhile now and it is so much easier than anything MS. It, like FF, has a built in spell checker.

I tried Thunderbird Email early last year and was really impressed with it until I discovered that forwarding mail with pics embedded was a huge hassle. Some published fixes almost worked...others didn't.

Open Office might be my next try.

[jon_norstog]

Guys,

Nice seeing this discussion on a gun list. Just proves to me it's a group with wide-ranging interests.

I have been using Open Office for years. It works 'cross the board, windows, Mac, Linux, even Unix, your files open up and look right. I like T-bird for a windows email client. You got a lot of choice for email clients on Linux and there I kind of like Evolution.

And for web browsing, of course, Firefox pretty much covers the waterfront.

As for M$ operating systems, I like NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and XP. They are all kind of crappy but the older OSes at least have most of their bugs worked out.

You use Unix or Linux a while, learn the OS and you'll never want to go back.

jn

[Mr. B]

I bought MS Office 2007. It was on sale for $99 at Best Buy. Was a little difficult to run the programs with the VISTA like navigation, but I got the hang of it.

What really fried my A$$ was this. In the past, if you had MS WORD installed in your system, MS outlook used it as your spell checker when doing e-mail. Mine outlook uses the French dictionary (WTF) amd MS informs me there is no fix, just an add on program of some kind.

I was so fried that I refused to take the time to even answer the support e-mails from MS. I just cut and paste an email to WORD to check it if I need to. Anyone else have this little problem?

I have three copies of Office 2007, the special price for Military (49.00) and a corp copy everything MS office offers (20.00). Yes all are leagel and regestered with MS Corp. Not one has the issue you are talkiing about. Office 2007 interface somewhat takes time to get used to but after a few times using it and learning where the stuff is its alot easier...Outlook didn't change all that much for the 2003 Outlook, look wise.

I Used it first on my Home computer and then they (USAF installed it on our work machines, i use this office products everyday) I like it better and better, much better and user friendly than Office 2003.

Try doing the following and i know that you may not what to hear this but you need to trust Office and how they set it up. Office uses a custom Dictionay (you create by adding words not in the dictionay) and a dictionay that has all the languages in it, its just labed French.

1. Go into the tools/options and then spelling.
2. click spelling and corrections
3. under the second heading named "When correctiing spelling in Microsoft office progems" slect custom dictionay and ensure all dictionaries are selected at the bottom of the window.
4. click ok until you are back in you e-mail.

Now it should look for all words no matter what language

might also want to check to see what language outlook is using under the
1. tools/options
2. click the mail format tab
3. click editor option and then click the language setting button
3. make sure that english is only selected in the right hand window.
4. click all the way out to Outlook.

If this is confusing PM me and i will pass you my Cell phone and will talk you thru it all, i am in Alaska so we would have to work on the time change.

Mark

[Quarks]

I bought MS Office 2007. It was on sale for $99 at Best Buy. Was a little difficult to run the programs with the VISTA like navigation, but I got the hang of it.

What really fried my A$$ was this. In the past, if you had MS WORD installed in your system, MS outlook used it as your spell checker when doing e-mail. Mine outlook uses the French dictionary (WTF) amd MS informs me there is no fix, just an add on program of some kind.

I was so fried that I refused to take the time to even answer the support e-mails from MS. I just cut and paste an email to WORD to check it if I need to. Anyone else have this little problem?

We've been using Office 2007 for over a year, now, & when we installed it we set up Word as our spell-checker. Works like a champ, never had any issues with it.

I don't have it in front of me at the moment so I can't run thru the update screens & give you a blow-by-blow description of how to integrate Word into your E-mail. Try going back thru the set-up options, I'm betting that the product took an unexpected default & you should be able to switch it fairly easily. I hope.

Good luck!