Spell question - help

[Mary]

Not the right newsgroup, I know, but I've had no luck with this in the
Word related groups.

I receive Word documents from many countries and want to spell check
them all in English UK.

Is there any way I can set the spell checker to be this by default. It
seems that even if I set the language to UK English default that Word
seems to for some reason default to the language of the country the
document was written in and this seems to be English US

Simply - I want the spell checker to check any document opened in
English UK by default.

 

[Doug Main]

Not the right newsgroup, I know, but I've had no luck with this in the
Word related groups.

I receive Word documents from many countries and want to spell check
them all in English UK.

Is there any way I can set the spell checker to be this by default. It
seems that even if I set the language to UK English default that Word
seems to for some reason default to the language of the country the
document was written in and this seems to be English US

Simply - I want the spell checker to check any document opened in
English UK by default.

I'd honour your request, but have to go to the theatre in the town
centre. Perhaps someone else will do you the favour.

 

[Kevin]

Check the spelling of text in another language

To check the spelling of text that's written in a language other than
English, first install a dictionary for each language you want to check.
Then, mark the text with the appropriate language format. During a spelling
check, Word will switch to the corresponding dictionary when it encounters
the marked text. If you always check text in another language, you might
want to change the default language dictionary instead of marking the text.
To fine-tune and streamline spell checking, you can create a custom
dictionary and an exclude dictionary for each language you want to check.

If you've marked text with the French language format, you can have Word
suggest and accept accent marks for uppercase letters during a spelling
check.

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Mary, the above was pasted from the Help files in my version of Word. I use
Office 97 Professional SR2. It looks like the operative item is a
dictionary in the language in question. Hope this helps. I'm surprised the
Word newsgroups don't have this for you.