Outlook – Microsoft Outlook 2003 Spell Checker

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I'm forced to use Outlook at work, and I have a couple of questions about the spell checker. The option of not using the spell checker is an option, but my spelling is so sufficiently bad that it's probably a better idea to use it…

  1. Is it possible to get Outlook to just underline misspelled words as I type them, like every other application on the planet? My options appear to be no spell check, manual spell check, or automatically spell check as I hit send and ask me about every word it doesn't know.

  2. In case the 1st isn't an option, is it possible to tell the spell checker something like "if it has punctuation in it, treat it as a valid word"? I'm a programmer, so if a word has punctuation in it, there's a REALLY good chance that it's something like foo.py or get_cksum() and I don't need that to be spellchecked…

Best Answer

Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2002

Compose a new message.
On the Tools menu, click Options and then click the Spelling & Grammar tab..
Click the Check spelling as you type check box.
Click the Check grammar as you type check box.

Taken from how to disable auto spell checking. I assume doing the opposite will enable it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937422

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