Posted by dorayme on 11/23/07 20:55

In article <hukj15-0k6.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby A Inkster <usenet200707@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> > A friend asked me how to get German writing (into which he breaks
> > out into occasionally when writing emails to friends in Germany)
> > spellchecked in the normal ways that his English typing is
> > checked (underlined in red and whatever)? He uses Windows XP and
> > Word 2000, and Outlook Express.
>
> Install the German dictionaries for Word? (IIRC Outlook Express will use
> Word's dictionaries if they're available.)

Yeah, that is what I told him. He said stuff like "Can you be
more specific?" and I backed out of the room mumbling about not
knowing much about Windows, look on your CDs, on the internet...

I noticed there are lots of German to English dicts on the
internet... but what he needs is a simple list of German words as
a data base and in a file that can be put somewhere and it simply
works to spellcheck.

Perhaps I will search his Word CDs (Would not be on his Windows
XP install DVD I guess) next week if I get time. I'd prefer you
fly over and help him though, there'd be a couple of homebrew
stubbies in it for you (I noticed in my friend's fridge that he
has a couple of mine unopened. You cook and stuff Toby, so you
might appreciate that my beer is made from the grain and like the
Germans, with no cane sugar).

--
dorayme

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