You would get better support asking in the Office group. But in a
nutshell, it's like this. If you want Office 2003 AND 2007, install ALL
the Office 2003 apps you need and THEN install the Office 2003. Doing it
backwards really messes up the installation.

scrambledyellow wrote:

> Hi PowerUser
>
> I read with interest your issue. I have a guy in the office here who has
> installed office 2007 fully and is working with 2007 in all packages except
> Excel. He removed Excel 2007 and put back on Excel 2003 and he is having the
> same issue - a French dictionary, no options to change the setting in Excel
> to another dictionary. This is affecting his spell-checking feature in Excel
> - returns French suggestions for English words. All Office 2007 packages
> work fine.
>
> What component did you get and install and from where? Please can you help,
> offer any advice?
>
> "PowerUser" wrote:
>
>
>>I managed to get it to work- Office 2007 doesn't have the proofing tools, so
>>I had to install the component from 2003.
>>
>>"Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddress.com> wrote in message
>>news:e$wevgQ%23HHA.980@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>microsoft.public.office.setup is probably the right place to ask this
>>>question.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Ron Badour
>>>MS MVP 1997 - 2007
>>>
>>>
>>>"PowerUser" <a@bbc.com> wrote in message
>>>news:OR6F6IQ%23HHA.4180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl. ..
>>>
>>>>OK I'm in deep trouble- I use OE for mail. I had Office 2003 previously
>>>>installed and OE was using Office's spelling dictionary. Then I
>>>>uninstalled Office 2003 and installed Office 2007. OE is now using an
>>>>absurd Fench dictionary, and is prompting me for all words! OMG!
>>>>I checked the settings in OE and there are no other dictionaries in the
>>>>drop down box available! What do I do? Please!!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>