Outlook : default spell check language for different contacts

Question

I am regularly conversing with people in several countries, about half of which speak English, and the other ones French.

So for half the emails I compose, I need to manually switch the language for spell check.

Is it possible to define a preference language linked to a contact, so that when I create a new message Outlook knows automatically in which language it should do the spell check ?

I am using Outlook 2010.

Answer 1

I haven't been able to find anything about language selection by a specific contact, but there are options for automatic language recognition which may help.

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There are two automatic language features that make it easier to switch between languages when typing and editing text in more than one language: Detect language automatically and Automatically switch keyboard to match language of surrounding text.

Detect languages in Word or Outlook

1. Open a new document or email message.
2. On the Review tab, in the Language group, click Language.
3. Click Set Proofing Language.
4. In the Language dialog box, select the Detect language automatically check box.
5. Review the languages shown above the double line in the Mark selected text as list. Office can only detect those languages listed above the double line. If the languages that you use are not shown above the double line, you must enable the editing language (turn on the language-specific options) to have Office automatically detect them.

Source - Turn on automatic language options