Ben,
Beth is spot on (as usual).
My comment applies if this happens often.
I use Australian English for most of my work and incorporate text from other
Australians (usually on PCs) who have their computers inadvertently set to
US English. The problem occurs so often that I have a button on a toolbar
containing a macro (easily recorded) to apply Australian English.
Post back if you need any further info.
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
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Hi Ben,
I'll bet your document contains paragraphs pasted in from other sources?
Those paragraphs are likely set to English(US). It's not enough to set a
language default for your documents since individual paragraphs (and even
characters) can have different language settings.
Tab into one of the sections where spelling doesn't work. Go to Tools>
Language and see what the language setting is. US, right? What you need to
do is select the whole document and change the language setting to
English(UK).
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Beth Rosengard
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