Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 10861
Incorporate spellchecker in Windows Outlook?
Last modified: 2004-04-08 12:54:47 UTC
Windows outlook uses the MS Office product for spell checking. Is there a way that the spell checker in Writer can be utilized for spelling purposes in MS Outlook? This capability is worthwhile and necessary for the spelling challenged. Thank you for the time and support in advance.
@mba: Please take care of this one. Thanx
First we need to make up our mind if we want to provide that at all (provider our spellchecker as Windows spellchecker). If we want to do this, we need to implement a COM-Wrapper around our own UNO-API for the spellchecker. It is also possible to write a COM implementation that directly wraps the individual spellcheckers for OOo and StarOffice. For the latter one, it might be possible that such COM implementation already exists, because the vendor might want his product to be used in that context.
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Hi, I would like to suggest that this might be an excellent marketing opportunity for OpenOffice.org. MS Outlook Express does not by default have a spell checker facility without MS Word loaded. Outlook Express suits most of my clients without the need to use full blown Outlook. Spell checking, Calendar/Schedule is all that is generally required. Knocking one of these over would help. It would be a VERY BIG point in favour of OpenOffice.org if the dictionaries were available to MS Outlook Express as well. Hopefully I haven't hijacked the issue. But I felt my comment could help give wait to the issue. Thanks Kelvin
Fl->TL: Do we have a chance to implement this for OO.org 2.0?
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FL and I agreed that MBA and FL took the issue the wrong way (integrating the Outlook spellchecker for use in OOo which would have been beneficial at least to Windows users of OOo). Since I do not see where the benefit for OOo would be in doing this I think I will stick to fixing other tasks or implementing new feature that will improve OOo instead of doing this. TL->Kevin: What about you Kevin? Do you have any interest in making the OOo spellchecker available in Outlook? I don't even know if this is possible, I doubt it is. MBA's comment was about integrating the Outlook spellchecker in OOo which probably could have been done. But I do not know if it is possible to supply/add a new spellchecker to Outlook. If you don't know about this either or have no time for it please feel free to close this issue.
Hi Thomas, I know nothing about windows and I do not have the time to spend on learning Outlook's interface which may in fact be proprietary as well. So I am closing this one out. Kevin
Closing