Steve B wrote:
Installed the Live whatever. Still stuck in French.

sigh .......

"Live" doesn't have anything to do with it. Outlook (or OE) uses the spell
checker provided with Word. With Word 2007 and beyond (Office for XP, etc.),
the only spell checker is the French one (Legal reasons to allow Office to
be sold in France). If you want a spell-checker, there are ways...

Google is not necessarily your friend, but may be in this one instance.