Yes, English (U.K.) is selected and so is English (U.S.).
Below that is a double line and below that many other languages that are not
selected.
In fact, what do you mean by selected? Both UK and US have an icon on the
left with ABC and tick. Only UK has a dark grey background.

I tried 'specialize' and 'defense' too and it told me that both were spelled
correctly.
custom.dic contains 92 words, none of them color.
I appreciate your help but get very frustrated that a simple spelling check
does not work.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

When you select the word "color" and go to Tools | Language | Set Language,
is English (U.K.) selected? If so, then that spelling is accepted by the UK
English proofing tools. If you want to disallow this spelling, you can
exclude it. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm

FWIW, if I type "color" here and then select the word and apply "English
(U.K.)" as the language, it is marked as misspelled. Perhaps "color" has
been added to your Custom.dic?

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"Ant" wrote in message
...
Yes. Which is fine if the language is Chinese but wrong if the language
is a
variant of the rest of the document.
But my real problem is that if I open Word and type the word Color it does
not mark it as a bad spelling. Even after having followed every
instruction
to remove US from regional and Office settings. If someone could show me
how
to work around that 'bad' behaviour I could accept that pasted text is not
checked in the language of the rest of the document. It's not what I want
though of course.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Any time you open a document in which a different language is used, or
when
you paste in text from such a document, you will be using the proofing
tools
for that language. When you paste in text, the language at the insertion
point is the language of the pasted selection; if you continue typing at
that point without changing the language, you will be using those
proofing
tools.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Ant" wrote in message
...
I do not have, and for a long time have not had, US in my regional
settings.
As explained in
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm
"You'll also still have problems with the document reverting back to
the
"bad" language while editing. There is no way to get rid of this
problem
in
an existing file, short of recreating the file."
So it is not just one unlucky user with this problem.


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

I have already told you earlier in the thread how to stop Word from
checking
with US spellings.
To Remove the US regional settings
Control panel regional and language options languages
details -
select UK and delete US. It will be removed next time you reboot.

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Ant wrote:
Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it
a
registry key change?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no
US
English set up in the regional settings.

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Ant wrote:
Graham,
For other languages you are right, but for English English for
England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English
for
America setting. Antony
PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional
settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined
for
the text - see tools language set language (set to UK
English
or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language
automatically'.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


jeamsu wrote:
I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so
that
if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as
a
correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct
spelling.