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As an academic and writer I use a Mac computer (Wonderful!) with
Microsoft Office for Mac 2004, Student edition.
Most of the documents I see use US English as the default, and they
often cause the documents I import all or (mostly) part of them into to
flip to the same. Refusing to be colonised a second time (I'm Irish) I
insist on writing all my documents in UK English.
Every source of help and information about this tells me to use the
tools menu to change the default language. My tools menu hasn't got
such a default. The 'Spelling and Grammar' options in 'Preferences'
don't seem to make any difference.
This means that, for documents affected or infected by the US English
default, I cannot use spellcheck. Is this a conspiracy by the US
government to eradicate British English, or have I missed something?
It can't be, can it, that Microsoft has chosen to eliminate these
settings from the Student edition, settings which are probably more
important for students and teachers than many of Word's the other
myriad and pointless features?
Microsoft Office for Mac 2004, Student edition.
Most of the documents I see use US English as the default, and they
often cause the documents I import all or (mostly) part of them into to
flip to the same. Refusing to be colonised a second time (I'm Irish) I
insist on writing all my documents in UK English.
Every source of help and information about this tells me to use the
tools menu to change the default language. My tools menu hasn't got
such a default. The 'Spelling and Grammar' options in 'Preferences'
don't seem to make any difference.
This means that, for documents affected or infected by the US English
default, I cannot use spellcheck. Is this a conspiracy by the US
government to eradicate British English, or have I missed something?
It can't be, can it, that Microsoft has chosen to eliminate these
settings from the Student edition, settings which are probably more
important for students and teachers than many of Word's the other
myriad and pointless features?