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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...
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.
- I just did. There wasn't a 'language group'. When I clicked on 'review' I had a 'Translate' and 'Language' option. Clicked on 'language' and then I had two options. 'set proofing language' and 'language preferences' – both are already set to UK English.
- Are you on a Windows system?
Does your Ribbon have a Mailings tab? If not, you are using the (inferior) browser program named Word.I'm using Windows 11. My ribbon does have a mailings tab, between 'references' and 'review'. It cost £59.99 from the Microsoft website..
- To add to the above – it probably goes without saying that I'm concerned that I'll write something in American English by mistake and MS Word won't highlight it.