Sorry about that, Dave ... although it's a minor dream of mine, I don't think I've ever had an installation without some version of Word installed. So, in answer to your original question, I'd suggest that your friend look up Excalibur. It is solid, has quite a few specialized dictionaries, is fast and easy to operate, and ... taa daa ... it's free.
When operating under OS9, I'd select the text I wanted to spell-check, copy, and press the F5 button on the keyboard. (You have to set the F key one time via the keyboard CP for this.) Excalibur would fire up and start checking. At the end of the process, I'd just paste the edited result back into the original document. I ran into no conflicts between Excalibur and any other application. Bill > From: David Dudine <ddudine at psci.net> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 17:38:46 -0500 > To: MacGroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Spell Checker for Outlook Express... > > Bill and John, > > The spell checker is not exactly built in. It is dependent on having > Microsoft Word 98 installed, which I don't. But I might try to buy a copy > cheap just for that feature. > > David Dudine > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
