Thanks Suzanne, I must have set the default lang over 100 times for this
particular doc. Just followed your instructions and now it defaults to
English(UK).

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm. But note that
language is a character format that is applied to text. If you open a
document that has been created by a US user, it will have that language
applied; that is, your system language doesn't override the document
language. If you want to do that, you must select the entire document and
apply the desired language manually. Also note that, because language is a
text property, it can ride in on text you paste into a document and affects
the language at the insertion point; if you start typing immediately after
the pasted text, the applied language will persist.

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Words into Type
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"mad dogs and englishmen" mad dogs and
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After setting my default language to English(UK), virtually every document
I
edit has gone back to English(US).

It's driving me mad. How can default settings keep changing back to what I
assume is the initial default.