Calm down. Obscene though US imperialism might be, it doesn't actually
extend its nefarious tentacles this far.

Set the language for your computer as a whole: go to Regional and Language
settings on the Control Panel and change the language from US English to
something civilized.

Set the langauge for Word: set the language for normal style to English
(Australian). Set other styles if necessary, although most styles ulitmately
inherit from Normal, so you probably won't need to.

Set the language for the document: select the lot, then use Tools
Language.



"Dannyg" wrote in message
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Is there a simple way of keeping English (Australian) as the default spell
checker. I change it for one word and it just keeps going back to the US
version. What is it with the US can't they accept anything else???