I'm doing a lot of importing data from my scanner at the moment. The text is
full of errors as its scanning from a magazine so I'm spell-checking a lot.
My problem is that my spell-check keeps defaulting to US English regardless
of me setting it to UK English several times during the document.
I've used the tools menu to set the language for the document, but when I
add something else it changes back again! These boards led me to check my
pc's language, but that is UK English, so the problem isn't there.
I know I'm being pedantic because this is for personal use, but we spell
chilli with two l's not one! It's driving me crazy!

The language attribute to scanned text is a function of the OCR software.
Depending on that software you may be able to set the language for text
conversion to Word format. Otherwise having imported it select all the Word
text (Ctrl+A) and tools language set language.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Strudel wrote:
I'm doing a lot of importing data from my scanner at the moment. The
text is full of errors as its scanning from a magazine so I'm
spell-checking a lot. My problem is that my spell-check keeps
defaulting to US English regardless of me setting it to UK English
several times during the document.
I've used the tools menu to set the language for the document, but
when I add something else it changes back again! These boards led me
to check my pc's language, but that is UK English, so the problem
isn't there.
I know I'm being pedantic because this is for personal use, but we
spell chilli with two l's not one! It's driving me crazy!

thank you Graham. My OCR program only has one "English" under the grouping
American/European so I expect that is US English.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The language attribute to scanned text is a function of the OCR software.
Depending on that software you may be able to set the language for text
conversion to Word format. Otherwise having imported it select all the Word
text (Ctrl+A) and tools language set language.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Strudel wrote:
I'm doing a lot of importing data from my scanner at the moment. The
text is full of errors as its scanning from a magazine so I'm
spell-checking a lot. My problem is that my spell-check keeps
defaulting to US English regardless of me setting it to UK English
several times during the document.
I've used the tools menu to set the language for the document, but
when I add something else it changes back again! These boards led me
to check my pc's language, but that is UK English, so the problem
isn't there.
I know I'm being pedantic because this is for personal use, but we
spell chilli with two l's not one! It's driving me crazy!

Graham,

Thank you also, as this procedure also worked on my scanned documents that
would not "Spell Check".

"Strudel" wrote:

thank you Graham. My OCR program only has one "English" under the grouping
American/European so I expect that is US English.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The language attribute to scanned text is a function of the OCR software.
Depending on that software you may be able to set the language for text
conversion to Word format. Otherwise having imported it select all the Word
text (Ctrl+A) and tools language set language.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Strudel wrote:
I'm doing a lot of importing data from my scanner at the moment. The
text is full of errors as its scanning from a magazine so I'm
spell-checking a lot. My problem is that my spell-check keeps
defaulting to US English regardless of me setting it to UK English
several times during the document.
I've used the tools menu to set the language for the document, but
when I add something else it changes back again! These boards led me
to check my pc's language, but that is UK English, so the problem
isn't there.
I know I'm being pedantic because this is for personal use, but we
spell chilli with two l's not one! It's driving me crazy!