On 06/02/2009 16:11, Gene Heskett wrote:
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.
Errm. Yes but the OP asked about Outlook Express ...
If you uninstall MS Office (on Windows) you automagically lose OE's
ability to spell check. Duh!
Generally, most linux users tend to see OE as one of the more drain bamaged
email agents extant.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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