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UK english
Maybe the issue here is that UK English is more likely to accept spelling alternatives (I am not sure). Of course, allowing for spelling alternatives is not going to be helpful for anyone who wants to ensure consistency.
As Charles said, language formatting is unnecessarily complex in Word—or at least it isn't fully transparent.
To verify that the language is correct in the document, select a small portion of text, such as a single word, and then visit the Language dialog box (Review tab > Language group > Language > Set Proofing Language). Repeat this with other words in the document.
This is necessary because Word may not correctly display the language if you select a large portion, such as the whole document.
However, it is possible to re-apply the correct language to a large selection, such as a whole document. That is why re-applying UK English should work (and that is why Charles suggested doing this). In such an instance, you just use OK in the Language dialog box (do not choose Set as Default because you are not changing the default).
- Thanks. If you look at my reply on July 3rd, 10:28, you'll see I've already gone to the language 'group' (where it says 'translate' and 'language'). I clicked on 'Language' then clicked on 'set proofing language' and it's already set to UK English. Okay, so I opened a word document with 'any more' in it, highlighted 'any more' and then clicked on set proofing language again. UK English was still selected, then I clicked 'OK' and nothing happened – 'any more' still underlined.
"any more" is correct, at least in US when it is referring to quantity, but an error if it is referring to time or sequence. Here is English US:
English UK gives the same result.
- No, the top one's an adverb, the bottom's a determiner and in UK English they are both written as 'any more'. The top one is usually 'anymore' in US English. But! All my messing around with this has improved word with the English spelling. Not sure what I've tweaked, thanks to you lot, but 'focussed', 'backwards and forwards' etc. is no longer being underlined.
Thanks a bunch to you all!
Thanks for the update. It wasn't clear (to me, at least) that you verified the language for a smaller selection, which will be the only way to get an accurate report from Word about the language which has been applied to text.
As I wrote previously, maybe the challenge is that UK English simply accepts more spelling alternatives, then. 😞
Perhaps adding the affected word(s) to an exclusion dictionary will be helpful. See http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/ExcludeWordFromDic.htm.
