How to remove all trace of American english from a document?

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peter

Someone created a company wide template on a pc that had American english as
its Office default.
We are a British organisation and plough instead of plow, minimise instead
of minimize, etc.
Other than by retyping from scratch, how can I get rid of the US language
from this document?
 
P

peter

Suzanne, helpful, but not a fix.
It is inserted chunks of American text lifted from other word documents that
would seem to be the issue here.
so I could go through with Reveal Formatting on, id the sections, Clear
Formatting, then reapply the desired Font/Paragraph/etc formatting.

No easy fix then?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

No, as long as a different language can ride in on a single character,
there's no way to permanently extirpate American English. You just have to
keep using Ctrl+A, Tools | Language | Set Language from time to time.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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