Set Language in Word 2007 (Enterprise)

[Paul Gauci]

I need to write most of my reports in United Kingdom English, but my spell
checker 'insists' on referring to United States English as the editing
language. I have tried the following:

1. Word Options>Popular>Language Settings and then enable English (United
Kingdom) as the only editing language.

2. Home>Select>Select All followed by Review>Set Language>English
(United Kingdom), and then set this feature as the default in the template in
use.

but United States English still 'persists' on being the primary editing
language.

Is there anything else that I should be doing please?

Thanks

Paul

 

[Terry Farrell]

If the template has been set as you describe, all new documents created from
that template should be in ENG UK. One other setting though is to make sure
that the Automatically Detect Language is cleared (unchecked) before
pressing the DEFAULT button the DEFAULT button.

Unfortunately, documents that are already created and have taken on ENG US
will remain as such until you have opened them and followed the same
procedure to set the language and saved the document again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You must set the language of Windows to English (UK). See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

Also, be aware that English (US) can ride in on pasted text; see
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm

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