How do I disable US English as an editing language?

[Nordenian]

I am using Office 2007 SP-1 running on Vista Ultimate
I want to disable US English. Every so often I find autocorrect is working
in US rather than UK English, even though 'detect language automatically' is
turned off. This annoys me as it makes my documents look amateurish and
irritates my customers.
I'd like US English marked as a foreign language so I can easily correct it,
but I cannot disable it permanently in the Office language settings - it
always re-enables itself on relaunch. Word happily accepts UK as my primary
editing language, but often just ignores it when it comes across something
spelled the American way.
Is there a way to make Word always respect my default setting please?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for general
principles, but note that language is a character format. US English can
ride in on pasted material as small as one character. If you start typing
after the pasted text, the language at the insertion point is going to be US
English. Your only recourse may be to Select All and apply UK English
explicitly when editing is complete.

 

[Nordenian]

Thank you for a quick and informative reply.
The critical bit on the page you pointed me to is:
"Enable only the languages you want to use
Go to START/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft
Office [version] Language Settings. In here, enable only the languages you
intend to spell check. Enabling other languages will enable Word to switch to
these languages - something you want to avoid."
This is just what I can't do... I want to only enable UK English but US
comes back every time I launch an Office program!
The language settings in Vista Regional & Language options are all UK.
I currently use the CTRL-A workaround when I remember, but it's a pain.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

English is a single language, I'm afraid (despite all evidence to the
contrary). When you enable it, you enable all "flavors" of it. You can avoid
some language formatting problems if you paste as unformatted text when
incorporating material from other sources.

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

Thank you for a quick and informative reply.
The critical bit on the page you pointed me to is:
"Enable only the languages you want to use
Go to START/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft
Office [version] Language Settings. In here, enable only the languages you
intend to spell check. Enabling other languages will enable Word to switch
to
these languages - something you want to avoid."
This is just what I can't do... I want to only enable UK English but US
comes back every time I launch an Office program!
The language settings in Vista Regional & Language options are all UK.
I currently use the CTRL-A workaround when I remember, but it's a pain.

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for general
principles, but note that language is a character format. US English can
ride in on pasted material as small as one character. If you start typing
after the pasted text, the language at the insertion point is going to be
US
English. Your only recourse may be to Select All and apply UK English
explicitly when editing is complete.

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

 

[Nordenian]

Thanks for your time, and the explanation.
Some of my customers are rather defensive about the UK flavour getting
overwhelmed, so I'll just have to be careful.
Thanks for the tip about pasting unformatted text, too - that might be part
of the problem.

English is a single language, I'm afraid (despite all evidence to the
contrary). When you enable it, you enable all "flavors" of it. You can avoid
some language formatting problems if you paste as unformatted text when
incorporating material from other sources.

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

Thank you for a quick and informative reply.
The critical bit on the page you pointed me to is:
"Enable only the languages you want to use
Go to START/Programs/Microsoft Office/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft
Office [version] Language Settings. In here, enable only the languages you
intend to spell check. Enabling other languages will enable Word to switch
to
these languages - something you want to avoid."
This is just what I can't do... I want to only enable UK English but US
comes back every time I launch an Office program!
The language settings in Vista Regional & Language options are all UK.
I currently use the CTRL-A workaround when I remember, but it's a pain.

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for general
principles, but note that language is a character format. US English can
ride in on pasted material as small as one character. If you start typing
after the pasted text, the language at the insertion point is going to be
US
English. Your only recourse may be to Select All and apply UK English
explicitly when editing is complete.

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

I am using Office 2007 SP-1 running on Vista Ultimate
I want to disable US English. Every so often I find autocorrect is
working
in US rather than UK English, even though 'detect language
automatically'
is
turned off. This annoys me as it makes my documents look amateurish and
irritates my customers.
I'd like US English marked as a foreign language so I can easily
correct
it,
but I cannot disable it permanently in the Office language settings -
it
always re-enables itself on relaunch. Word happily accepts UK as my
primary
editing language, but often just ignores it when it comes across
something
spelled the American way.
Is there a way to make Word always respect my default setting please?