Dictionary spelling

[Carla Ancillotti]

Hi

I have a question relating to the UK dictionary in word. I have changed all
settings on my machine to UK (in the control panel and in all office apps)
but there are still words such as organiSation which are being corrected to
organiZation. Any suggestion? or have these words just been added into the
Uk dictionary?

many thanks
Carla

 

[DeanH]

In the UK dictionary 'iz' and 'is' are both allowed, if you personally don't
want them you will need to create an Excluding Dictionary.
This works very well with the -ize and -ise issue, in the respect that once
you have made your personal choice you can ensure your documents have the
versions you want.
I use my Excluding dictionary to also hold other words that are in all
dictionaries and even though correctly spelt, you would rather not appear in
your documents, namely obscene words and the like - need I say more ;-)
With the Excluding Dictionary you will need to enter all variants of the
-ize words, such as -ization, -izing, -ized, -izes, etc. This will take time
but once completed and maintained this because a very powerful tool.
For 2003 and prior: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm
For 2007: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101473031033.aspx
Hope this helps
DeanH

 

[Carla Ancillotti]

Many thanks Dean , I will give that a try

Carla

 

[DeanH]

The instructions are look more daunting that they really are ;-)
All the best
DeanH

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unfortunately, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101473031033.aspx
just refers back to
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm, which has not been
updated (I could have sworn that this issue had been fixed, as I sent the
re-revised article in February); I guess I will have to put my re-revised
version up at my own site.

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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It took two tries (somehow I managed to delete the entire page somewhere
between creating it and publishing it and had to start from scratch, though
it did go more quickly the second time), but the result is now up at
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm

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