Bonjour!  So, suddenly, while spell checking you’ve noticed that Outlook Express is using a French spell checker?

If the truth be known, I’d never heard of this issue until clients starting calling.  I Googled the issue and the culprit is Microsoft Office 2007.  You’ve probably installed that recently right?  Or not used the spell checking since then?

Well, the good news is, there’s an easy fix for this.  You’re going to download and install a free program and that will fix it.

These are my instructions:

1.  Go to this site:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spelloe.html

Click on the blue download button and save the file to your desktop.  See screenshot below:

A file should download called spelloe_outlook.exe

2.  Close Outlook Express  (in fact, close any other open programs just to be safe).

3.  Run the program you just downloaded.  (EG Double click it and it should run).

When it’s finished installing open Outlook Express and see if that fixes the problem.  Many of my clients have followed this procedure and their spell checker is now back in English.