spell checker insanity

[Mark McGinty]

I have recently reached the conclusion that it is entirely useless and

without beneficial function of any sort for an email client spell checker to

flag as misspelled:

1.) Anything added to the body by a signature (check it when the sig is

changed, sure; everytime it's used, NOT);

2.) The display name and/or email address of any specified recipient, that

may [and inevitably will] occur within the body;

(Hmm, as I think of it, in reality, what's the point of ever spell checking

any 'word' with an embedded '@'? It's never going to be in the dictionary,

and 999,999 times out of 1M, it's going to be an email.)

I was looking into writing an AddIn to end the maddness, but I don't see any

spell-checker-related object interfaces at all in OOM. Is this end of

Outlook extensible at all/did I miss something? Alternatively, are there

any third-party solutions that aren't quite so brain-dead?

TIA,

Mark McGinty

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

There's nothing in the OOM for spell checking, if you use WordMail or

Outlook 2007 you have access to whatever is there in the Word object model

from Inspector.WordEditor, which is a Word.Document object.

"Mark McGinty" <mmcginty@spamfromyou.com> wrote in message

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> I have recently reached the conclusion that it is entirely useless and
> without beneficial function of any sort for an email client spell checker
> to flag as misspelled:

> 1.) Anything added to the body by a signature (check it when the sig is
> changed, sure; everytime it's used, NOT);
> 2.) The display name and/or email address of any specified recipient, that
> may [and inevitably will] occur within the body;

> (Hmm, as I think of it, in reality, what's the point of ever spell
> checking any 'word' with an embedded '@'? It's never going to be in the
> dictionary, and 999,999 times out of 1M, it's going to be an email.)

> I was looking into writing an AddIn to end the maddness, but I don't see
> any spell-checker-related object interfaces at all in OOM. Is this end of
> Outlook extensible at all/did I miss something? Alternatively, are there
> any third-party solutions that aren't quite so brain-dead?

> TIA,
> Mark McGinty
>