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I’m trying to run a spell check in Word 2007 for Australian English.
Previously, in Word 2003, I was able to run a spell check on documents
written in Australian English by installing a supplemental dictionary on my
computer that enabled Word 2003 to find words spelled with English U.S. and
show them as misspelled. For example, the American spelling of the word
“analyze†is spelled “analyse†in Australian English.
Now that I’m using Word 2007, spell check doesn’t stop at these words, even
though I’ve applied Australian English to my text under Review/Set Language.
I’ve been told that Word’s Australian language dictionary includes both –ise
and –ize as permissible spellings. In order to keep Word from recognising the
–iz variations, you would have to manually exclude each variation of each
word, such as:
Visualize
Visualized
Visualizes
Visualizing
Visualization
It’s also been suggested that the best way to approach this when working on
Australian English documents is to run a find and replace for iz (vs. -is)
and or (vs. -our).
This seems cumbersome. Does anyone know of another way to handle this
problem?
Previously, in Word 2003, I was able to run a spell check on documents
written in Australian English by installing a supplemental dictionary on my
computer that enabled Word 2003 to find words spelled with English U.S. and
show them as misspelled. For example, the American spelling of the word
“analyze†is spelled “analyse†in Australian English.
Now that I’m using Word 2007, spell check doesn’t stop at these words, even
though I’ve applied Australian English to my text under Review/Set Language.
I’ve been told that Word’s Australian language dictionary includes both –ise
and –ize as permissible spellings. In order to keep Word from recognising the
–iz variations, you would have to manually exclude each variation of each
word, such as:
Visualize
Visualized
Visualizes
Visualizing
Visualization
It’s also been suggested that the best way to approach this when working on
Australian English documents is to run a find and replace for iz (vs. -is)
and or (vs. -our).
This seems cumbersome. Does anyone know of another way to handle this
problem?