Improve spell checking in Powerpoint

[purpleglitter]

In MS Word, you can set the default language to either British or American
English, and when you run the spell check it will identify the differences
such as colour/colour, installment/instalment etc. It will also allow the use
of either the Z or S varients of words such as organise in UK English, and
only allow the Z version in US English.
However, the spellchecker in Powerpoint is different to that in Word. it
doesn't seem to pick up these differences. Even the Excel spellchecker seems
to do a better job of it than Powerpoint.
It would be great if the Powerpoint spellchecker would be consistent with
the one in Word.

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...-f8dddea17890&dg=microsoft.public.office.misc

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

The proofing tools for MS Office 2003 are shared by all of the apps. There aren't separate ones for Powerpoint and Excel.

If you select text in Powerpoint and use Tools=>Language you can set the same English(U.K) settings that you can in Word.

You can also select text, use F7 to do a spell check and in the 'correction' dialog choose English(U.K.) or English(U.S) in Word,
Excel or Powerpoint.

=========
In MS Word, you can set the default language to either British or American
English, and when you run the spell check it will identify the differences
such as colour/colour, installment/instalment etc. It will also allow the use
of either the Z or S varients of words such as organise in UK English, and
only allow the Z version in US English.
However, the spellchecker in Powerpoint is different to that in Word. it
doesn't seem to pick up these differences. Even the Excel spellchecker seems
to do a better job of it than Powerpoint.
It would be great if the Powerpoint spellchecker would be consistent with
the one in Word.>>
--
I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS to the 2007 Office System

1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
http://microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx#booksfrommspress

2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta,
e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool:
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033

b. then visit
http://officebeta.iponet.net