word 2007 autocorrect word list

[Tony_nz]

It appears to me that if I select a language other than English(United
States) as my editing language, autocorrect does not supply a list of words,
so that "teh" is not corrected to "the". Is this correct, and if it is, how
do I get a list for English (New Zealand) for instance?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AutoCorrect entries are indeed stored in separate .acl files by language.
But if you have English (New Zealand) selected, Word should be using the
appropriate .acl file.

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

 

[Tony_nz]

That's what I would have expected - so why is it not happening? I must say
that this is not unique to me. What prompted the question was a problem with
my local SeniorNet group, where student's home computers (presumably set to
US English) were working as expected, but the club computers were not.

 

[Tony Jollans]

I have noticed something odd in the way Word 2007 deals with this but can't
repeat it at the moment.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I would answer more definitively if I were qualified to do so, but this is
an area in which I am not very knowledgeable. The newsgroup that deals with
this general area is microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammar, but it's not
very high-traffic.

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

 

[Tony_nz]

I've managed a work-around by taking a copy of the US English .acl file and
using it to replace the NZ English file. This appears to solve the problem,
but is a PITA as I will have to be doing it on all the club computers as well.
It all seems very weird to me.