How to Detect Language Automatically in Outlook

Posted by Jonh On Tuesday, June 3, 2008 1 comments

The Detect language automatically option in Outlook and Word can automatically detect the language you are typing in and enable the proofing tools for that language. This has the same result as if you manually set the language.

This information applies to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, not Microsoft Outlook Express. For information about Outlook Express, see the Outlook Express Support Center.

1. Open a new e-mail message.

2. On the Message tab, in the Proofing group, click the arrow under Spelling.

3. Click Set Language Button image.

4. Select the Detect language automatically check box.

5. Review the languages shown above the double line in the Mark selected text as list. Outlook can only detect those languages listed above the double line. If there are languages you use that are not shown above the double line, you must enable those languages (turn on the language-specific options) to have Outlook automatically detect them.

Note Automatic language detection does not work on a single-word basis but on a sentence basis. Depending on the length of your sentences, you might need to type several sentences before Outlook has enough contextual information to automatically detect the language and apply the correct dictionary.

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