Forum Discussion
Language settings in Word online
In the account settings I have chosen: "Languages
Display language
English (Canada)
Preferred languages
English (Canada)"
Whether in the app or in the M365 account settings, all my choices for region and language are set to CANADA. And yet Word shows errors for such spellings as "Colour" and "Centre" etc.
I suspect this is an error in the system related to the wide varieties of English one can select. The software is otherwise very good so it makes this very troubling. Please fix this.
My online 365 Mac Excel is also in Dutch while it should be in English.
Please fix this, as it's getting very irritating. Excel for Mac is irritating enough with it's limitations, considering the price you pay for it, I already feel a second class customer
The web-based versions of Office programs use the language settings of the operating system. As far as I know, you can't change that fact. 😞
With regard to my OS - it is Mac 10.15.7 and set to "Canadian English" because I am in Toronto. Word Online tells me "colour" is spelled wrong but it is correct. It's therefore got nothing to do with the language of the OS.
And to repeat, in multiple areas of the MS 365 and Online Word I have it set to Canadian English but it doesn't work correctly.
Clearly it's a work in progress as is other aspects of the software. Today I had an issue creating a copy of a file in Excel Online - it would not allow creation of copy via "save as" so I had to download a copy as a workaround.
