How do I switch the dictionary language in Word 2003?

[Marycciu]

I want to save my default dictionary language (for spell checks) to English
UK and it keeps popping back to English US. Can't seem to figure out how to
make it stick. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for a guide to
setting the system language (which is used by Word) and
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm for issues that
arise from pasting text into a document.