How do I remove US english from the spell check?

[Guest]

I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type
say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It
should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings.
Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see
tools > language > set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck
the box 'Detect language automatically'.

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[Guest]

Graham,
For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this
is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting.
Antony
PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English
set up in the regional settings.

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[Guest]

Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it a registry
key change?

 

[Graham Mayor]

I have already told you earlier in the thread how to stop Word from checking
with US spellings.
To Remove the US regional settings
Control panel > regional and language options > languages > details -
select UK and delete US. It will be removed next time you reboot.

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[Guest]

I do not have, and for a long time have not had, US in my regional settings.
As explained in http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm
"You'll also still have problems with the document reverting back to the
"bad" language while editing. There is no way to get rid of this problem in
an existing file, short of recreating the file."
So it is not just one unlucky user with this problem.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Any time you open a document in which a different language is used, or when
you paste in text from such a document, you will be using the proofing tools
for that language. When you paste in text, the language at the insertion
point is the language of the pasted selection; if you continue typing at
that point without changing the language, you will be using those proofing
tools.

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[Guest]

Yes. Which is fine if the language is Chinese but wrong if the language is a
variant of the rest of the document.
But my real problem is that if I open Word and type the word Color it does
not mark it as a bad spelling. Even after having followed every instruction
to remove US from regional and Office settings. If someone could show me how
to work around that 'bad' behaviour I could accept that pasted text is not
checked in the language of the rest of the document. It's not what I want
though of course.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

When you select the word "color" and go to Tools | Language | Set Language,
is English (U.K.) selected? If so, then that spelling is accepted by the UK
English proofing tools. If you want to disallow this spelling, you can
exclude it. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm

FWIW, if I type "color" here and then select the word and apply "English
(U.K.)" as the language, it is marked as misspelled. Perhaps "color" has
been added to your Custom.dic?

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[Guest]

Yes, English (U.K.) is selected and so is English (U.S.).
Below that is a double line and below that many other languages that are not
selected.
In fact, what do you mean by selected? Both UK and US have an icon on the
left with ABC and tick. Only UK has a dark grey background.

I tried 'specialize' and 'defense' too and it told me that both were spelled
correctly.
custom.dic contains 92 words, none of them color.
I appreciate your help but get very frustrated that a simple spelling check
does not work.

 

[Tony Jollans]

The languages which show above the line are the ones you have enabled.

Close all Office applications.

Go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools >
Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings

Disable US English (and enable/disable any other languages you want) on the
Enabled Language tab.

You should see the results next time you use Word.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If I apply a language in a document, the language appears above the line (in
the MRU list) for that Word session. If I restart Word, only English (U.S.)
remains there.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As in any other dropdown list, the listing with a dark background is the one
that is "selected."

FWIW, if I type "specialize" and "defense" and format them as UK English,
"defense" is marked incorrect, but "specialize" is not, which I believe
reflects current UK usage (either -ise or -ize permitted). I suppose it
would not improve my case to point out that -ize and -or are etymologically
more sound?

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[Guest]

Thank you for your help Tony but as I stated above I have done that. I did
it about a year ago and it still doesn't work. I think this thread contains
all the suggestions I have tried. If you have any other ideas I would love
to try them. I expect it is a registry edit or a file delete.

 

[Guest]

The grey highlight meaning selected is what I suspected. As there is
something which I don't understand here, I just thought I would provide the
information about the double line and the icons (which don't appear in any
other dropdown list) in case that would indicate to you what I am doing wrong.
Current UK usage I would suspect is defined by dictionary definition rather
than the streets of London. If I receive a CV with the word specialize in
it, I instantly know that the candidate is either 500 years old, or learnt
English outside England. The majority of the people I converse with would
consider specialize as the wrong spelling which is all I am interested in
using a spelling check for. Your reply is starting to hint that I, the
customer and user, am wrong, which is where I say thank you, Word doesn't
work, and duck out. If you have any other ideas how I can get Word to mark
color as wrongly spelt I am very interested.

 

[Guest]

There are two salient points here. Firstly you are implying that I have
accidentally somehow applied English (U.S.) to the new document so that I get
both US and UK English. I have opened a new document and that is the
situation. Is there a way that I can get a new document to open in that
state?

Secondly, and probably more importantly, your regional settings are US. I
am 100% convinced that all you are describing would work if my home settings
were US and not UK. I don't believe Word has been tested with UK regional
settings.

 

[Tony Jollans]

I am in the UK. My regional settings are UK. I don't have the problems you
seem to have. I do, however, agree with you that most software (MS and
other) is US-centric.

 

[Tony Jollans]

Specialize is correct UK English spelling - this is fact, not opinion. You
can't fault language settings on your PC for the fact that they don't
highlight correct spellings as being in error.

 

[Guest]

Tony, I am excited to hear that it is possible! Are you using Word 2003?
Inspired by this thread I have just installed OpenOffice and it works
straight away (marks color as badly spelled.) I've opened a single (Word)
document that I know contains drawings and art and tables and it opened
perfectly. I think I may have found the *easy* solution.