How to make Word 2003 stick with UK English as default dictionary.

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madclone - 21 Apr 2005 11:28 GMT

Can't get Word 2003 to stick with UK English as the default dictionary
language. It's set correctly in Control Panel but each time I start a spell
check then Word reverts to US English and throws up so-called corrections
based on the American language not English. If I change it to UK English it
switches back at the first 'correction'. It's driving me nuts - how do I get
this program to do what *I* want?

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Neal - 10 May 2005 16:50 GMT

Either change the natural launguage in for your computer. (Do this in the
control panel.)

Or delete the American english dictionary.

> Can't get Word 2003 to stick with UK English as the default dictionary
> language. It's set correctly in Control Panel but each time I start a spell
> check then Word reverts to US English and throws up so-called corrections
> based on the American language not English. If I change it to UK English it
> switches back at the first 'correction'. It's driving me nuts - how do I get
> this program to do what *I* want?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 10 May 2005 17:12 GMT

You can't "delete the American English dictionary," since U.S. and U.K.
English use the same .lex file. See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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> Either change the natural launguage in for your computer. (Do this in the
> control panel.)
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> > switches back at the first 'correction'. It's driving me nuts - how do I get
> > this program to do what *I* want?

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