Are you seeing US English in a new blank document? If so, check the Normal
style to make sure the language is set correctly. Other than that, just be
aware that US English can ride in on text that you paste (especially from
the Web), even as little as a single character.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"David" wrote in message
...
I am using Word 2007/ XP Pro and have tried all suggestions but still
cannot
get the spellchecher to default to Australian English. (Windows language
setting set to Australian, Office language setting set to Australian, Auto
detect turned off, Word language defaulted to Australian - saved to
normal.dot.). What have I not done? Surely it is a bug in Word 2007?
(Does
microsoft want to standardise the world to US spelling?)
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm and
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Karenish" wrote in message
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I am with Rigadon, I am using my new word programme and am currently
writing
a 4000 word assignment in English (UK) I have tried to remove English
(US)
by deleting on the correct page. But close the page and re open it and
bingo
there is US again.
I can change to UK when I am on the current page, but as soon as I
scroll
to
another page, or start a new one it defaults back to English (US) - I
have
nothing against americans (grin), but we dont spell specialise with a
"z"
so
the darn document is correcting my spelling to US each time and its
driving
me nuts. Have tried all of your suggestions and think it must be a
blip
in
the system.
"David Stephensen" wrote:
I followed all of the instructions on the suggested page, including
removing
US English as a possible language in the Office 2003 Language
Settings.
I edited my normal.dot and set all styles to English Australia. I set
the
default language in normal.dot to English Australia.
Even after all this, when I start a new document it says US English.
My workaround for each time you start a new document (which does not
make
me
admire Word very much): Do all of the above for your language, then
start
the
new doc, type one character, ctrl+a (select all), ctrl+space (remove
all
character formats), ctrl+q (remove all paragraph formats), then
release
your
selection. Now the doc is in the right language, as long as you never
delete
everything. If you delete everything it reverts to US English.
If you create a doc template with existing text, use the above method,
but
make sure the last paragraph of the doc template is not blank. The
last
paragraph in a dot will always revert to US English if it is blank.
Please try this and let me know how you go.
David