Thank you for your help Tony but as I stated above I have done that. I did
it about a year ago and it still doesn't work. I think this thread contains
all the suggestions I have tried. If you have any other ideas I would love
to try them. I expect it is a registry edit or a file delete.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:

The languages which show above the line are the ones you have enabled.

Close all Office applications.

Go to Start All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Tools
Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings

Disable US English (and enable/disable any other languages you want) on the
Enabled Language tab.

You should see the results next time you use Word.
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Enjoy,
Tony


"Ant" wrote in message
...
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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Words into Type
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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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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



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.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


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'.

--

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.