Article ID: 282807 - Last Review: January 29, 2007 - Revision: 2.1

Outlook Express spell checker gets cancelled when Visual Basic 6 or Access 97 is running

This article was previously published under Q282807
For information about the differences between Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express e-mail clients, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
257824  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257824/EN-US/ ) OL2000: Differences Between Outlook and Outlook Express
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SYMPTOMS

When you post a message, if Microsoft Visual Basic 6 or Microsoft Access 97 is also running, Outlook Express reports that the spelling checker was cancelled.

WORKAROUND

When you post messages to newsgroups, make sure that you do not have Visual Basic 6 or Access 97 running.

If this behavior occurs, close Outlook Express, Visual Basic, and Access, and then restart Outlook Express. The spelling checker should then work as expected.

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
253351  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253351/ ) OLEXP: Error Message: An error occurred while the spelling was being checked
224176  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224176/ ) OLEXP: Cannot spell check messages in Outlook Express 5
178238  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/178238/ ) OLEXP: Spell checker or custom dictionary errors in Outlook Express

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0
    • Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
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