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UK english
I bought MS Word yesterday (Office) I've a LAPTOP. I've set it to UK English, but it still wants to change my 'leant' into 'leaned', my 'focussed' into 'focused', my 'backwards and forwards' into 'ba...
Thanks for that. I checked and the oxford comma box isn't even ticked but the absent oxford is highlighted as missing on my documents. Also, my language settings are UK or British English. Charles_Kenyon
Also, some UK English is okay, like road 'kerb' instead of road 'curb' (Us english).
- The Word UK dictionary does allow some Americanized versions of Words.
- The language setting of the operating system can override Word settings.
- The language setting is by character, not word, sentence, paragraph, document, or application!
- Changing settings will not change the setting for existing documents.
See the link I gave earlier for more. There is much more. This is ridiculously complex.
- Thanks. I tried your link 'Spelling checker does not work'. I don't have a status bar at the bottom of my screen and on the top where it says 'File', 'Home', 'insert' etc., there's no 'tools' or 'language'. So I couldn't get far with that. If I type 'Language' in the 'search' bar, it says I'm on UK English.
Thanks for the help btw – much appreciated.On the Review tab look at the Language button in the Language group.
