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My Word spelling changes aren't reflected in Outlook
 

Some spelling options are shared between Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 only when you use Word as your e-mail editor. If you turn off Word as your e-mail editor, your settings for the following options in Word are no longer in effect for e-mail messages:

  • Always suggest corrections
  • Ignore words in UPPERCASE
  • Ignore words with numbers

To turn Word on as your e-mail editor, open Outlook, and on the Tools menu, click Options, click the Mail Format tab, and then under Message format, select the Use Microsoft Office Word to edit e-mail messages check box.

Note  You can find spelling and grammar options in Word by clicking Options on the Tools menu and then clicking the Spelling & Grammar tab.

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