spell checker insanity

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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
 
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
>
 
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