That was IT!!
I had done this before and wondered why it never took.
I was not aware it was necessary to select the entire document to get this
to change. I was doing the change for wherever my insertion point was.
I presume that is to allow for different languages on a single document?
Dave
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Ctrl+A to Select All, then go to Tools | Language | Set Language and
change
the language to English (U.S.).
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"David French" wrote in message
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I have numerous documents that were created in Britain and are spell
checked
using their common spelling conventions.
How do I change these documents so I may check them against United States
spelling rules?
Dave