How to fix the Outlook 2010 spell check as you type feature

3/28/2012

When a user upgrades from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2010, but not to the whole 2010 Office Suite, Office 2010 will look for Word 2010 to use as its editor. This means the auto correct feature won’t work, nor will the red underline while you type spell check feature.

To do this:

Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ and copy the Winword.exe file.

Then, nagivate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ and paste the Winword.exe file into this folder.

Simply restart Outlook 2010, and you should be good to go.

20 Comments

Paul

7/1/2012 09:39:34 pm

I have beenn scratching my head trying to work this out for weeks, followed your fix and my wavy red lines are back as I type a new message!
Great fix thanks !!!

Tony

8/21/2012 11:42:05 am

Simply legendary!

RAM

10/3/2012 06:12:20 am

SUPER !!! BRILLIANT!!! MY IT TEAM SUCKED TO FIND THIS !!!

Catherine

4/24/2013 09:35:57 am

Worked perfectly - thank you so much !

gary

6/24/2013 09:19:41 am

super fantastic....I was so frustrated and no one knew this....thank you!

Shane

6/26/2013 01:20:09 am

Great! Worked a treat! Thanks Gerry!

Marcio Cracel

8/30/2013 07:50:48 am

Best tip of the week.

Stephen

9/4/2013 08:52:22 pm

Amazing. This has irritated me for ages.

Dnyaneshwar

12/2/2013 04:06:25 pm

Thanks it's working.

Hesteah

12/27/2013 04:19:45 am

HELP - I looked in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\ but found only Outlook2014
There was a WinWord document there, but it was a word doc not an exe.
Now what?

Gerry Ray

5/15/2014 05:03:56 am

If you use a 64 bit windows version use the files in Program files (x86)

Anthony

2/4/2014 05:47:14 am

Thanks you! wavy lines are back and so are the synonyms!

Rick Zerafin

5/22/2014 05:52:45 am

Thanks, your instructions on Outlook worked great!

Vanessa

7/24/2014 10:57:21 am

HELP...it says i do not have permission to paste it

Imran

8/26/2014 07:49:35 pm

Thanks the solution helped a lot.

11/18/2014 12:33:09 am

Thank you so much - this has been driving me crazy and I'm so glad to have this function back. Great tip.

Gerry

11/18/2014 01:07:40 am

No problem

Mike Fazz

5/5/2015 11:39:31 am

I don't see a winword.exe file.

Gerry Ray

5/6/2015 01:50:26 am

Can you email me a screenshot of the full directory? I'll take a look.

Rainer

12/10/2015 08:48:54 am

Thank you very much.
I couldn't find a solution in german.
I tried all fixing tool and new installations and new profiles.
Great

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