2009/2/6, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>: > > On Friday 06 February 2009, Gene Young wrote: > >Harold Fuchs wrote: > >> 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. > > > >How about easier. Compose your message in oo.o. Cut or copy the text. > > Go to your mail program and hit reply. Paste in the appropriate > location. > > > Or simply use an email agent with a built in spell checker, and lets you > scroll up or down to add your reply comment to anyplace in the message, but > defaults to the bottom of the message. I can think of at least one email > agent that does this, the one I use here (kmail), but I've not tried all > the > others so the experience is limited. All of that is I believe present and > useful in your Thunderbird-2.0.0.19 too. > > Generally, most linux users tend to see OE as one of the more drain bamaged > email agents extant. > > > -- > Cheers, Gene
I think the first choice is to decide whether one wants to access one's email account(s) via an email client, like Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, etc, or via a web mail service, like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. That decision being made, one can then chose a client or a service which either has it's own spellchecker or provides access to another. Myself, I use Gmail accessed directly on the web in combination with the spellchecking feature on the Google Toolbar, which I experience as superior to Gmail's own.... Henri
