Fix the Dictionary Feature in Spellcheck

[Guest]

It seems like there is a demon in my machine. I try to spell-check in
English (U.S>) and the machine overwrites my option and forces me to check in
French. There is no way to over-ride this and there is no help available to
fix it.

There is some kind of idiotic hard-coded instruction that needs to be fixed.

PS. and by the way, what on earth is meant by the German reform rules???

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[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hi Eastcoaster

It seems like there is a demon in my machine. I try to spell-check in
English (U.S>) and the machine overwrites my option and forces me to check in
French. There is no way to over-ride this and there is no help available to
fix it.

Whenever something like this happens to me, I need to exhale slowly.

And then I go and consult Cindy Meister's article:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

PS. and by the way, what on earth is meant by the German reform rules???

If you do not write German texts in Word, you don't need to bother (many
German speaking users don't want to, either! ). The German language
has been "reformed" recently, and battles are fought which changes are
plain dumb, merely annoying, or have to be rolled back (or whether the
rollback of some is/was a good idea). [That's a very shortened
statement, I find some changes not too bad myself -- it's the process
that generated them which is, ahem, debatable.]

HTH
Robert

 

[Guest]

Thank you Mr Franz for the link - I will check it out

Hi Eastcoaster

It seems like there is a demon in my machine. I try to spell-check in
English (U.S>) and the machine overwrites my option and forces me to check in
French. There is no way to over-ride this and there is no help available to
fix it.

Whenever something like this happens to me, I need to exhale slowly.

And then I go and consult Cindy Meister's article:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

PS. and by the way, what on earth is meant by the German reform rules???

If you do not write German texts in Word, you don't need to bother (many
German speaking users don't want to, either! ). The German language
has been "reformed" recently, and battles are fought which changes are
plain dumb, merely annoying, or have to be rolled back (or whether the
rollback of some is/was a good idea). [That's a very shortened
statement, I find some changes not too bad myself -- it's the process
that generated them which is, ahem, debatable.]

HTH
Robert
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