Language Preferences

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Spell Organi(s)ation

How do you change the language preference to English (UK). I have changed all
the required boxes, I think, but the spell check and autocorrect keep
changing the correct UK spelling back into the US spelling.
 
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Roti Aloysimo

Spell Organi(s)ation said:
How do you change the language preference to English (UK). I have changed all
the required boxes, I think, but the spell check and autocorrect keep
changing the correct UK spelling back into the US spelling.
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I too prefer English (UK) in my academic papers, but the language preference
kept switching back to English (US) even though I had checked English (UK) as
default. What I finally did was to pull up my Word 2003 document, and hit the
"Select all" tab BEFORE choosing the language. (Tools/language/ etc.). The
language has remained English (UK) all through the day, even though,
previously, it kept switching to English (US) every few minutes. It's worked
so far, and I hope it stays this way. Try it, and let me know if you have
success.
 
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Keme

Spell said:
How do you change the language preference to English (UK). I have changed all
the required boxes, I think, but the spell check and autocorrect keep
changing the correct UK spelling back into the US spelling.
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Default new word documents are based on the "normal.dot" template, so
you have to set the default spellcheck language in that template and
save it as a document template(.dot) in a "templates" folder.

Select "Tools - Options" in the menus, and then the file locations tab.
There are two possible template locations.

- The "workgroup" one is for networked setup, and saving a template here
will affect all users using the same template folder.

- The "user" one is for you only, and should be on your computer or in
your home directory on the network.

If there is a "normal.dot" both in the "user" and "workgroup" area, the
"user" template will be used.
 
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