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Spelling and Grammar question (Word 2003)
My spelling and Grammar seem not to be working.
It has told me before that it is in Dutch (?). Not sure why, possibly because I communicated with a Dutch friend a long time ago and he send to me information, etc. Now, when I try to do a spell check of my English wittings I get dialogs that the spell check has finished, etc., but the misspelled words are still there, so it seems to me that it is not checking anything of what I wrote in English. Where do I check what kind of spell checker I have (I.e., the language), and also, where do I make American English, which is what I use, the Default? Thanks in advance. |
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Hi Octavio,
Read http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Octavio wrote: My spelling and Grammar seem not to be working. It has told me before that it is in Dutch (?). Not sure why, possibly because I communicated with a Dutch friend a long time ago and he send to me information, etc. Now, when I try to do a spell check of my English wittings I get dialogs that the spell check has finished, etc., but the misspelled words are still there, so it seems to me that it is not checking anything of what I wrote in English. Where do I check what kind of spell checker I have (I.e., the language), and also, where do I make American English, which is what I use, the Default? Thanks in advance. |
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Spelling and Grammar question (Word 2003)
SelectAll (Ctrl+A) and then use Tools, Languages, Set Languages. Select
English (US) and make sure that both check boxes at the bottom of that dialog are clear, then press DEFAULT. When you close Word. make sure to answer YES to the save to global template question. This should correct that document and any new documents. Other documents that may have been switched to Dutch may need to be manually changed using the same procedure (but without the need to press Default again). If you never use any other language that English (US), if you go to Start, MS Office, MS Office Tools, MS Office Languages, you can remove all other languages so that only English (US) is active. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Octavio" wrote in message ... My spelling and Grammar seem not to be working. It has told me before that it is in Dutch (?). Not sure why, possibly because I communicated with a Dutch friend a long time ago and he send to me information, etc. Now, when I try to do a spell check of my English wittings I get dialogs that the spell check has finished, etc., but the misspelled words are still there, so it seems to me that it is not checking anything of what I wrote in English. Where do I check what kind of spell checker I have (I.e., the language), and also, where do I make American English, which is what I use, the Default? Thanks in advance. |
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Thanks to you all. I found out that I had the Dutch Default in my Word
letter. I was able to change it there and the checker works in the letter now. If eventually you find an article that shows the path in Windows Vista Ultimate, let me know. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... SelectAll (Ctrl+A) and then use Tools, Languages, Set Languages. Select English (US) and make sure that both check boxes at the bottom of that dialog are clear, then press DEFAULT. When you close Word. make sure to answer YES to the save to global template question. This should correct that document and any new documents. Other documents that may have been switched to Dutch may need to be manually changed using the same procedure (but without the need to press Default again). If you never use any other language that English (US), if you go to Start, MS Office, MS Office Tools, MS Office Languages, you can remove all other languages so that only English (US) is active. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Octavio" wrote in message ... My spelling and Grammar seem not to be working. It has told me before that it is in Dutch (?). Not sure why, possibly because I communicated with a Dutch friend a long time ago and he send to me information, etc. Now, when I try to do a spell check of my English wittings I get dialogs that the spell check has finished, etc., but the misspelled words are still there, so it seems to me that it is not checking anything of what I wrote in English. Where do I check what kind of spell checker I have (I.e., the language), and also, where do I make American English, which is what I use, the Default? Thanks in advance. |
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