PNG' alt='How To Install Microsoft Word Spell Checker' title='How To Install Microsoft Word Spell Checker' />Add or edit words in a spell check dictionary. The spelling checker compares the words in your document against the main dictionary in Office. The main dictionary contains most common words, but it might not include certain proper names, technical terms, acronyms, or specialized capitalization. You can add words and special capitalization to a custom dictionary to prevent the spelling checker from flagging them as mistakes. Important Any custom dictionary setting that you change in one Office program affects all the other Office programs. All custom dictionaries are managed through the Custom Dictionaries dialog box, and any custom dictionaries you want to use must be enabled selected in this dialog box. Follow these steps to open the dialog box, and then choose a specific task below. Fix the spell checker in Outlook Express 6. Applies to Microsoft Windows XPSymptoms. Spell checking does not work and cannot be enabled in Outlook Express 6. How To Fix Microsoft Word Starter 2010 Fix, Clean HOW TO FIX MICROSOFT WORD STARTER 2010 And Optimize PC SPEED Up Your PC FREE Scan Now Spelling in Microsoft Word. Helen Bradley. All you ever wanted to know about Spell Checking in Word but were afraid to ask. Helen Bradley ventures into the bowels. When you try to spellcheck a message, you may receive the message An error occurred while the spelling was being checked. Cause. Outlook Express does not have a spell checker. It can make use of the spell checker in Microsoft Office 9. Microsoft Works later versions, which include Microsoft Word if present. When you installed Microsofts Word Flow keyboard on your iPhone, you probably thought it was an app or extension. Turns out, it was an experiment, an. However, a system file csapi. Windows XP. Tip You may be able to see whether or not csapi. Outlook Express by clicking on Help, About. Solution. Obtain a copy of the missing file csapi. C Program FilesCommon. FilesMicrosoft SharedProof. Method 1. Click Start, Run, type msconfig and hit Enter. When the System Configuration Utility starts, click the button captioned Expand File. In the Expand One File from Installation Source dialog box type the name of the file you want to restore e. Windows XP CD or a folder named i. C Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedProof. Then click Expand. After have done this, you may need to restart Windows. You should also verify that Always check spelling is enabled. Tools, Options, Spelling. If you cant find an i. Microsoft Office CD. Copies may also be extracted from the file mailnews. Internet Explorer 5. Windows 9. 8 CD, or the file Win1. Windows Me CD. Method 2. Download a copy of the file by clicking on this link. Just run the downloaded file to install it into its usual location. Further things to try. We sometimes receive reports from people who have followed the above steps and still cant get spell checking to work. If that is the case, here are some other things to try Try copying csapi. Outlook Express folder instead. Some readers have reported that this works when all else has failed. Locate the files ctapi. Proof on your Microsoft Office CD and copy them to the. SharedProof folder. If you are using Microsoft Office 9. English, locate the files mssp. Proof on your Microsoft Office CD and copy them to the SharedProof folder. If you are using a different version of Office or Works, locate the Proof folder on the CD and copy the files with names beginning mssp. SharedProof folder. Note that the. lex files are dictionaries, and some of them will be for languages that you arent using. Open Control Panel, Regional Settings. Check under Regional Options that the language selected is the same as that used by Microsoft Office, i. English United States or English United Kingdom. Open Outlook Express, Tools, Options, Spelling tab and check that the language selected there is the same as selected above. One reader from an English speaking region outside the US found selecting English United States solved the problem. Using the Registry Editor, expand HKEYLOCALMACHINE, SOFTWARE, Microsoft, Shared Tools and check that the value Shared. Files. Dir contains C Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Shared or whatever is the parent of your Proof folder. The full long filename and the backslash at the end of the path are both important. You can download a file oeproof. Save Target As. and then double click it to do this automatically, but only use this. Rocket Download Free Mp3 Music on this page. ONLY if your Proof folder is in C Program Files, not some other location. If all of the above are correct, and spell checking still doesnt work, try uninstalling and then reinstalling Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works. If spell checking still doesnt work for Outlook Express after youve done all this, then unfortunately we are out of ideas. If you should discover any other reasons for this problem, please let us know so that we can add the information to this. If you dont have Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works. The steps described above will only enable spell checking in Outlook Express if you have a recent version of. Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works. Outlook Express cannot use the spell checkers in other companies Office packages. If you. dont have Microsoft Office or Microsoft Works and you would still like to be able to spellcheck your Outlook Express messages.