2009/2/5 Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> > > > 2009/2/4 JOE Conner <[email protected]> > > Harold Fuchs wrote: >> >>> On 04/02/2009 10:29, ABELITIS SOLICITORS wrote: >>> >>>> hello >>>> Can U assist? How do I get spell check to vet emails? >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Ian >>>> >>>> >>> You have sent a message to the group of volunteers who help users of >>> OpenOffice.org, a free office suite that competes with Microsoft Office. As >>> such we have nothing to do with e-mail. You need to consult the support >>> group for whichever e-mail program you are using. A company called Isota >>> sells a spell check program for Outlook Express, which is what you appear to >>> be using.. >>> >>> However, that being said, you can compose your email message with >> OpenOffice.org writer, spell check it with the writer spell check, then FILE >> -> SEND which gives you the choices: >> 1. DOCUMENT AS EMAIL which will generate an outgoing email with your >> document as an attachment, >> 2. EMAIL AS OPENDOCUMENT TEXT, >> 3. EMAIL AS MICROSOFT WORD which attaches your composition to an outgoing >> Word.DOC, >> 4. EMAIL AS PDF which will attach your composition to an outgoing email as >> a .PDF file. >> Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA >> >> This is true for new messages. Unfortunately it's rather cumbersome for > replies: you'd have to copy/paste the original into Writer, enter your reply > and then use Writer's EMAIL option, possibly re-typing the entire to: and > cc: lists. Addresses on any bcc: list would get lost as you wouldn't have > seen them so wouldn't know to re-enter them. >
I overlooked a simpler solution: 1. Use the mail program to do Reply or Reply All. The result will be a properly addressed message containing the text of conversation to date. 2. *Cut* the above mentioned text from the e-mail message and paste it into a new Writer document. The Reply e-mail will now be properly addressed but will contain no text. 3. Compose your reply using Writer, interleaving as appropriate. 4. Copy (or cut) the Writer text and paste it into the (now blank) e-mail. 5. Use the e-mail program's Send function to send the message. More cumbersome than having a spell checker within the e-mail program but a lot less cumbersome than my original thought. Sorry. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
