Word will not use English (U.S.)

[Robert Rees]

I am sure this is not to hard to solve, but I cant see to do it. I have a
document that I am authoring. It started as a template from Office Online.
I am using Word 2007 Beta 3. I cannot get word to use the English, U.S.
spelling check. I have gone into the options and checked English U.S., but
when I run the spell check, it is using U.K. (as seen in the title bar of the
window).

A few of the words that it is trying to correct:
Honored to Honoured
Valor to Valour
Defense to Defence

any help with this problem will be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

There are two aspects. You can set the default language, and you can set the
language of text that's currently selected. Here's a way to set both to
English U.S.

Press Ctrl+A to select the entire document, then double-click the language
item in the status bar (if it's not there, right-click the status bar and
click Language). In the Language dialog, choose English (U.S.). Click the
Default button and confirm by clicking Yes. Click OK (not Close).

You're doing two things. By clicking Default, you're resetting the default
to English US for the current template.

By selecting everything, setting it to English U.S., then clicking OK,
you're setting the language of everything in the selection to English U.S.

Since you're using a downloaded template, setting the default will set the
default to English U.S. only for that template. To set it for most other
documents, press Ctrl+N to create a new blank document, double-click
Language there, set it to English U.S. (unless it's already set) and click
Default again.

 

[Guest]

This is what got me out of similar trouble with Word 2000. In the document,
type CTRL-A to select all, then go Tools | Languages. Now actually select
desired language so that it is highlighted (not just underlined and whether
or not it appears to be already selected) and then click on OK.