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Spell check language
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 |
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Spell check language
Ctrl+A to Select All, then go to Tools | Language | Set Language and change
the language to English (U.S.). -- 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. "David French" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Spell check language
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 ... Ctrl+A to Select All, then go to Tools | Language | Set Language and change the language to English (U.S.). -- 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. "David French" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Spell check language
Exactly. And the easiest way to apply different languages in the same
document (given that "Detect language automatically" doesn't work worth a toot and should therefore be disabled) is to define paragraph or character styles that include the language and then apply them to the text as needed. -- 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. "David French" wrote in message ... 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 ... Ctrl+A to Select All, then go to Tools | Language | Set Language and change the language to English (U.S.). -- 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. "David French" wrote in message ... 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 |
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