How do you stop word from defaulting to US bloody English? Please

[Guest]

Is there a simple way of keeping English (Australian) as the default spell
checker. I change it for one word and it just keeps going back to the US
version. What is it with the US can't they accept anything else???

 

[Greg Maxey]

I suppose you can figure out how to use the program or wait around grumbling
until some Austrialian firm comes alongs and develops a word processing
application that you don't feel is so "pro" American. Good luck.

 

[Jezebel]

Calm down. Obscene though US imperialism might be, it doesn't actually
extend its nefarious tentacles this far.

Set the language for your computer as a whole: go to Regional and Language
settings on the Control Panel and change the language from US English to
something civilized.

Set the langauge for Word: set the language for normal style to English
(Australian). Set other styles if necessary, although most styles ulitmately
inherit from Normal, so you probably won't need to.

Set the language for the document: select the lot, then use Tools >
Language.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Jezebel,

You are no fun. I would have left him groping for a while ;-)

 

[Guest]

I take it from that that you don't have the answer?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You've already been given the answer, but if you ignored it, see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Greg Maxey]

You assume too much. I simply don't like your attitude.

 

[Guest]

Hi all,
Suzanne and Jezebel, thank you (I mean it) for your succinct answers. Greg,
are you the USA, don't take things so personally.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Danny,

No I am not the USA. Just one of the "they" that you mentioned with such
contempt. If you wish to apologize that is one thing. If not that is fine
too. However, while I won't go off starting fires at your embassies over
your offensive remark, I will take it how I think it was meant.

Perhaps you should brush up on your history. If it weren't for past
cooperation and friendship between the Americans and Austrailians we prehaps
would be having our little spat in Japanese. Then we wouldn't have had the
language problem to start with.

 

[Jezebel]

Way too sensitive, Danny. Greg likes to think of himself as an irascible old
fart, but fails to persuade anyone else of that.

 

[Greg Maxey]

This from the one who wants us to believe he/she is a corrupt woman, the
mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. You make me laugh ;-)

 

[Jezebel]

son of a bitch

This from the one who wants us to believe he/she is a corrupt woman, the
mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. You make me laugh ;-)

--
Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.

 

[Greg Maxey]

I'll take that as a clue.