Your 100 percent right John, I have bought two or three computers with O E 
and had to install Microsoft  works to get the spell checker every time.
Ed  K7UC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: an antanna idea


> Either the manufacturer or you must have put a third party spell checker 
> on
> there for it. I work on computers all the time and have installed windows
> more times than I care to think about and can say with 100% confidence it
> doesn't have a spell checker out of the box there has to be an add on
> somewhere. The manufacturer could have done that. I've never heard of that
> but I don't deal with dell if I can help it since every dell that sees me
> coming breaks. I'm not kidding on that either, I don't get it. I have at
> least 10 computers in this house that are owned by us and more often than
> not one I get in trade in for one I built someone or something I bought 
> for
> a good price to fix up and sell or donate or a project I never get in to 
> and
> have never seen that, nor have I encountered a dell in 7 years thank god.
> I've always had to put the third party program in there which I've used 
> many
> times or office.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:43 PM
> Subject: Re: an antanna idea
>
>
>> so how come the outlook express i use on my other machine, which does not
>> have any MS word or office software, has a fully functional spell 
>> checker?
>> Perhaps del puts a spell checker on their machines for this reason?
>> My wife's machine, which also does not have any word or office software,
>> also has a fully functional outlook express spell checker.
>> strangeness.
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>