turn off US english spelling in spell check....not everyone is US

[KenyonChris]

The US spelling in Spell Check cannot be turned off and whilst a big chunk of
the planet is in US, not all are and our spelling is quite different... I
accept that US spelling should be the default, however would like the option
to be able to select Aus spelling and deselect US spelling.
At present I need to do a find and replace for "z" in every document I
create to correct the spelling from US to AUS.

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[Jezebel]

If you can't read Help, it probably doesn't matter what language you choose.
Most of the world doesn't use English, let alone USer English. You can set
the language to whatever you bloody well like.

 

[Tom_OM]

Windows Start Button ===> All Programs ===> Microsoft Office Tools
===> Microsoft Office XP Language Settings

 

[Brett_Australian]

I agree with KanyonChris. The other posters have misunderstood the issue.
Setting the language to Australian or British is not the problem.

The problem is that it only adds the British or Australian words. It does
not remove the U.S. spelling which is considered incorrect in our countries.

For example, if I have a document with the words 'realised' and 'realized',
the second word should be detected as a spelling mistake. It isn't. This is
the problem and it drives millions of people crazy around the world.

For god's sake just fix it.