[john mcmichael]

Do you know why a user would be unable to add words to their dictionary and
the document keeps defaulting to English U.K.? I tried running normal.dot and
setting the default office language to English U.S. but the document itself
seems to have been created in English U.K.. I'm not sure why this would
prevent him from adding to his dictionary though. He tries to right click on
the misspelled word and add to dictionary, but it is grayed out. Any
suggestions would be helpful.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When the dictionary fails to accept Words, it's often because it's set to a
different language from the text in question. Go to Tools | Options |
Spelling & Grammar and click on Custom Dictionaries... In the Custom
Dictionaries dialog, select Custom.dic and click Modify. Make sure that the
language is set to All Languages.

For help setting Word's default language, see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm. To change the
language of a given document, Ctrl+A to select all the text in the document,
then go to Tools | Language | Set Language and select the desired language.
Clear the check boxes for "Detect language automatically" and "Do not check
spelling or grammar."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"john mcmichael" wrote in message
...
Do you know why a user would be unable to add words to their dictionary
and
the document keeps defaulting to English U.K.? I tried running normal.dot
and
setting the default office language to English U.S. but the document
itself
seems to have been created in English U.K.. I'm not sure why this would
prevent him from adding to his dictionary though. He tries to right click
on
the misspelled word and add to dictionary, but it is grayed out. Any
suggestions would be helpful.