MSN Hotmail Spell Check No Longer Works with Office 2007

[kyosang]

I have Vista operating system and after installing Office 2007, the MSN mail spell checker no longer works. The error message that I get is that I dont have a dictionary installed for the select language. You have to install a spell checked available with installations of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Works inorder to use the spell checking feature. When I went to the download site then I got another message that states "The Office Update service is currently not supported on Microsoft Windows Vista. You can, however, get Office updates for Office XP, Office 2003, and the 2007 Office system by opting into the Microsoft Update service." Please help me? Thanks.

[rota]

Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that shipped in prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). There are a number of changes in this new version, but the one that is causing this problem is that MSN doesn't understand the new English Proofing Tools. This is a problem because MSN was never shipped with its own proofing tools but has used the ones shipped by Office.

The workaround for this problem is to install the English dictionary from Office 2003 (or Office XP). There should be no need to install all of Office just the dictionary. The English Proofing Tools can be found in the Custom Install tree under 'Office Shared Features|Proofing Tools|English'.