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[frednow]

If I compose an email and then save it as a draft, when I open it to edit it spell check is dimmed out, not available.

Bug? Or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Frederick

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[Dennis L.]

Hi frednow

I don't know if "Mac" does it different, but it works fine on my n7.0/XP.
Let's follow the process.....
Draft folder... Choose document, click once, brings to view.
Draft folder....Choose same document, click twice, opens document in "Composer" At this time, my "Spell check" is available. I would suggest dropping cursor down, into the body of the email and "click" once. Hopefully this will activate "spell" check. IF not, try........
Adding any NEW content to body.
Click on "Send", assuming you have "Check spelling before sending" active, will prompt spell checking. You can always click "cancel" to get out. Does this occur on ALL your drafts, or have you just tried one?

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[frednow]

Hi frednow

I don't know if "Mac" does it different, but it works fine on my n7.0/XP.
Let's follow the process.....
Draft folder... Choose document, click once, brings to view.
Draft folder....Choose same document, click twice, opens document in "Composer" At this time, my "Spell check" is available. I would suggest dropping cursor down, into the body of the email and "click" once. Hopefully this will activate "spell" check. IF not, try........
Adding any NEW content to body.
Click on "Send", assuming you have "Check spelling before sending" active, will prompt spell checking. You can always click "cancel" to get out. Does this occur on ALL your drafts, or have you just tried one?

Thanks for your reply and suggestions. Unfortunately, there's definitely a bug, although enabling "check spelling before sending" is a viable workaround.

Whether I open a draft into a compose window by double clicking the email in the draft folder, or just highlighting it and then clicking the "edit draft" button, spell check is dimmed out.

Here it gets interesting: no matter which of these two ways I use to bring the draft into a compose window, if I then use either of the two methods again to bring the draft up in a new compose window (keeping the first one open), spell check is now available. This seems to work consistently in all permutations ... double click first/"edit draft" button second, the reverse of that, or either of the two methods two times in a row.

Man, I gotta say, although I dig a lot of things about NS7.02 (especially tabbed browsing), I find it buggy, wiggy, and totally un-Mac. For instance, what's up with its pop-up windows (the voluntary ones, I mean) that only have an up-scroll arrow on the right hand side but no down-scroll arrow, too, LIKE EVERY FREAKING WINDOW IN EVERY MAC APPLICATION THAT'S EVER EXISTED! Will I ever train myself not to click that up arrow by mistake thinking it's the down arrow? Will I ever stop hating that I have to grab the low-resolution-way-too-fast-scrolling rectangle slider to move down a page?

And just how many times does one have to click/double click/click and a half, etc. in the URL window in order to select only a portion of the address to copy?! Finicky, finicky, finicky!

These are my questions. Rant over.

Frederick

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