Dictionary not behaving as required

[AltaEgo]

Windows 7
Office 2007

Display language settings:
Format: English (Australia)
Location: Australia
Administrative Language for non-Unicode: English (Australia)

Office 2007 Language settings
Enabled editing languages: English (Australia); English (United States)


Unlike my Office 2003 running under, XP, the above settings result in a new
document marking both Americanised and traditional Australian versions of
'ise' and 'ize' words correct. I am aware it is possible to set exceptions
in the dictionary and would like to do some work to get my dictionary
behaving the way I want.

Is it possible to loop through the US dictionary searching for words that
contain 'ize' then loop through the Australia dictionary checking for the
'ise' variant, adding to the exception list the 'ize' word when a match is
located. If so, I have scant knowledge of Word VBA but do know how to create
macros, how to edit, and can construct from scratch Subs and Functions -
alternative description: not a total newbie.

I know there are other variations but this would get the bulk of the
problems out of the way.

 

[AltaEgo]

Is there nobody who knows how to make the Australian dictionary behave in
traditional fashion?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word accepts words ending in ize(d) ise(d) in both UK and Australian
English. I cannot speak for Australian, but in UK English both can be
acceptable alternatives and where that is the case, both are correct and the
dictionary reflects that. This is true for both Word 2003 and 2007.

If you want to adopt a standard, then as you realise you can add words to an
exception list, but as far as I am aware it is not possible to loop through
the words in the standard dictionary as you envisage. There are, however
listings of such words available if you search at Google for words ending
ize.

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[AltaEgo]

Thank you for your answer or, should I say in spelling that is also becoming
acceptable: TY 4 yr nsa.

 

[AltaEgo]

I believe this is not comprehensive but it may help others:

http://www.peterjerrim.com/australianspelling/