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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. |
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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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. -- 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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
If I apply a language in a document, the language appears above the line (in
the MRU list) for that Word session. If I restart Word, only English (U.S.) remains there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" No Mail wrote in message ... 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. -- 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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
As in any other dropdown list, the listing with a dark background is the one
that is "selected." FWIW, if I type "specialize" and "defense" and format them as UK English, "defense" is marked incorrect, but "specialize" is not, which I believe reflects current UK usage (either -ise or -ize permitted). I suppose it would not improve my case to point out that -ize and -or are etymologically more sound? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
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. -- 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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
The grey highlight meaning selected is what I suspected. As there is
something which I don't understand here, I just thought I would provide the information about the double line and the icons (which don't appear in any other dropdown list) in case that would indicate to you what I am doing wrong. Current UK usage I would suspect is defined by dictionary definition rather than the streets of London. If I receive a CV with the word specialize in it, I instantly know that the candidate is either 500 years old, or learnt English outside England. The majority of the people I converse with would consider specialize as the wrong spelling which is all I am interested in using a spelling check for. Your reply is starting to hint that I, the customer and user, am wrong, which is where I say thank you, Word doesn't work, and duck out. If you have any other ideas how I can get Word to mark color as wrongly spelt I am very interested. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: As in any other dropdown list, the listing with a dark background is the one that is "selected." FWIW, if I type "specialize" and "defense" and format them as UK English, "defense" is marked incorrect, but "specialize" is not, which I believe reflects current UK usage (either -ise or -ize permitted). I suppose it would not improve my case to point out that -ize and -or are etymologically more sound? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
There are two salient points here. Firstly you are implying that I have
accidentally somehow applied English (U.S.) to the new document so that I get both US and UK English. I have opened a new document and that is the situation. Is there a way that I can get a new document to open in that state? Secondly, and probably more importantly, your regional settings are US. I am 100% convinced that all you are describing would work if my home settings were US and not UK. I don't believe Word has been tested with UK regional settings. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If I apply a language in a document, the language appears above the line (in the MRU list) for that Word session. If I restart Word, only English (U.S.) remains there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" No Mail wrote in message ... 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. -- 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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
I am in the UK. My regional settings are UK. I don't have the problems you
seem to have. I do, however, agree with you that most software (MS and other) is US-centric. -- Enjoy, Tony "Ant" wrote in message ... There are two salient points here. Firstly you are implying that I have accidentally somehow applied English (U.S.) to the new document so that I get both US and UK English. I have opened a new document and that is the situation. Is there a way that I can get a new document to open in that state? Secondly, and probably more importantly, your regional settings are US. I am 100% convinced that all you are describing would work if my home settings were US and not UK. I don't believe Word has been tested with UK regional settings. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If I apply a language in a document, the language appears above the line (in the MRU list) for that Word session. If I restart Word, only English (U.S.) remains there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" No Mail wrote in message ... 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. -- 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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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Specialize is correct UK English spelling - this is fact, not opinion. You
can't fault language settings on your PC for the fact that they don't highlight correct spellings as being in error. -- Enjoy, Tony "Ant" wrote in message ... The grey highlight meaning selected is what I suspected. As there is something which I don't understand here, I just thought I would provide the information about the double line and the icons (which don't appear in any other dropdown list) in case that would indicate to you what I am doing wrong. Current UK usage I would suspect is defined by dictionary definition rather than the streets of London. If I receive a CV with the word specialize in it, I instantly know that the candidate is either 500 years old, or learnt English outside England. The majority of the people I converse with would consider specialize as the wrong spelling which is all I am interested in using a spelling check for. Your reply is starting to hint that I, the customer and user, am wrong, which is where I say thank you, Word doesn't work, and duck out. If you have any other ideas how I can get Word to mark color as wrongly spelt I am very interested. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: As in any other dropdown list, the listing with a dark background is the one that is "selected." FWIW, if I type "specialize" and "defense" and format them as UK English, "defense" is marked incorrect, but "specialize" is not, which I believe reflects current UK usage (either -ise or -ize permitted). I suppose it would not improve my case to point out that -ize and -or are etymologically more sound? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
Tony, I am excited to hear that it is possible! Are you using Word 2003?
Inspired by this thread I have just installed OpenOffice and it works straight away (marks color as badly spelled.) I've opened a single (Word) document that I know contains drawings and art and tables and it opened perfectly. I think I may have found the *easy* solution. "Tony Jollans" wrote: I am in the UK. My regional settings are UK. I don't have the problems you seem to have. I do, however, agree with you that most software (MS and other) is US-centric. -- Enjoy, Tony "Ant" wrote in message ... There are two salient points here. Firstly you are implying that I have accidentally somehow applied English (U.S.) to the new document so that I get both US and UK English. I have opened a new document and that is the situation. Is there a way that I can get a new document to open in that state? Secondly, and probably more importantly, your regional settings are US. I am 100% convinced that all you are describing would work if my home settings were US and not UK. I don't believe Word has been tested with UK regional settings. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If I apply a language in a document, the language appears above the line (in the MRU list) for that Word session. If I restart Word, only English (U.S.) remains there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" No Mail wrote in message ... 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. -- 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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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Yes I am using Word 2003 - I actually have multiple languages enabled but
still have UK English as my default and it works just fine. If you want to remove all other languages you need to do it in Regional Settings (for Windows) and in Office Language Tools (for Office). You may still have an issue if you have text explicitly marked as US English and you may find you have US English set as the language in Normal style (depending on what you have already tried). I suspect you can uninstall Office support for other languages via Control Panel Add/Remove programs so that Word never has anything except UK English available. -- Enjoy, Tony "Ant" wrote in message ... Tony, I am excited to hear that it is possible! Are you using Word 2003? Inspired by this thread I have just installed OpenOffice and it works straight away (marks color as badly spelled.) I've opened a single (Word) document that I know contains drawings and art and tables and it opened perfectly. I think I may have found the *easy* solution. "Tony Jollans" wrote: I am in the UK. My regional settings are UK. I don't have the problems you seem to have. I do, however, agree with you that most software (MS and other) is US-centric. -- Enjoy, Tony "Ant" wrote in message ... There are two salient points here. Firstly you are implying that I have accidentally somehow applied English (U.S.) to the new document so that I get both US and UK English. I have opened a new document and that is the situation. Is there a way that I can get a new document to open in that state? Secondly, and probably more importantly, your regional settings are US. I am 100% convinced that all you are describing would work if my home settings were US and not UK. I don't believe Word has been tested with UK regional settings. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If I apply a language in a document, the language appears above the line (in the MRU list) for that Word session. If I restart Word, only English (U.S.) remains there. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tony Jollans" No Mail wrote in message ... 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. -- 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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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Ok, so specialize is correct, just not common in the field in which I work.
I can understand that Word can't tell the difference. I chose that as an example of a word that Word does not tell me is wrongly spelt, it was a bad example. I'll stick to color. In fact, no. I have just discovered that OpenOffice has a database that will also open dBase files so I am happy as Larry with my new Office suite. Thank you all for your help. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Specialize is correct UK English spelling - this is fact, not opinion. You can't fault language settings on your PC for the fact that they don't highlight correct spellings as being in error. -- Enjoy, Tony "Ant" wrote in message ... The grey highlight meaning selected is what I suspected. As there is something which I don't understand here, I just thought I would provide the information about the double line and the icons (which don't appear in any other dropdown list) in case that would indicate to you what I am doing wrong. Current UK usage I would suspect is defined by dictionary definition rather than the streets of London. If I receive a CV with the word specialize in it, I instantly know that the candidate is either 500 years old, or learnt English outside England. The majority of the people I converse with would consider specialize as the wrong spelling which is all I am interested in using a spelling check for. Your reply is starting to hint that I, the customer and user, am wrong, which is where I say thank you, Word doesn't work, and duck out. If you have any other ideas how I can get Word to mark color as wrongly spelt I am very interested. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: As in any other dropdown list, the listing with a dark background is the one that is "selected." FWIW, if I type "specialize" and "defense" and format them as UK English, "defense" is marked incorrect, but "specialize" is not, which I believe reflects current UK usage (either -ise or -ize permitted). I suppose it would not improve my case to point out that -ize and -or are etymologically more sound? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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With "color," however, you are on shakier ground, because in my copy of Word
2003, it *is* marked as misspelled in UK English. I assume you have checked your Custom.dic to make sure it hasn't been added inadvertently. As for "specialize," I repeat that it can be added to an exclusion dictionary; I admit that this is a lot of trouble if you have many words to add, but it can be done. I am curious as to why your UK English lexicon (in the same version of Word) differs from mine. But are you aware that there is a separate NG devoted entirely to spelling and grammar issues? If you post your concerns in microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammar, perhaps you will find more knowledgeable users who can help you to a solution. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ant" wrote in message ... Ok, so specialize is correct, just not common in the field in which I work. I can understand that Word can't tell the difference. I chose that as an example of a word that Word does not tell me is wrongly spelt, it was a bad example. I'll stick to color. In fact, no. I have just discovered that OpenOffice has a database that will also open dBase files so I am happy as Larry with my new Office suite. Thank you all for your help. "Tony Jollans" wrote: Specialize is correct UK English spelling - this is fact, not opinion. You can't fault language settings on your PC for the fact that they don't highlight correct spellings as being in error. -- Enjoy, Tony "Ant" wrote in message ... The grey highlight meaning selected is what I suspected. As there is something which I don't understand here, I just thought I would provide the information about the double line and the icons (which don't appear in any other dropdown list) in case that would indicate to you what I am doing wrong. Current UK usage I would suspect is defined by dictionary definition rather than the streets of London. If I receive a CV with the word specialize in it, I instantly know that the candidate is either 500 years old, or learnt English outside England. The majority of the people I converse with would consider specialize as the wrong spelling which is all I am interested in using a spelling check for. Your reply is starting to hint that I, the customer and user, am wrong, which is where I say thank you, Word doesn't work, and duck out. If you have any other ideas how I can get Word to mark color as wrongly spelt I am very interested. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: As in any other dropdown list, the listing with a dark background is the one that is "selected." FWIW, if I type "specialize" and "defense" and format them as UK English, "defense" is marked incorrect, but "specialize" is not, which I believe reflects current UK usage (either -ise or -ize permitted). I suppose it would not improve my case to point out that -ize and -or are etymologically more sound? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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. -- 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. |
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