Why can't I permanently change the Language in the
default. It is agravating to keep changing the default
langauge everytime I open a new document

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on opening a new blank document in word 2003 and typing
in a bogus word spellcheck does not pick up the error it
does appear to be working on other documents . at the end
of the check spellcheck say's finished excluding marked

Online Support is useless since I've got an OEM version
of Word.. argh
Anyway, I cannot turn spellcheck on and I cannot change
it to UK English. I click Tools, Language, Set, Choose UK

We have multiple systems running Windows XP,Office 97 SR-2
and Outlook 2003. On these machines when using Word, if
you type in any word and then select Thesaurus from the
spelling and grammar menu, it gives no synonyms. Is there

When I copy text from MS Publisher 2002 to Microsoft Word 2002 I can
not use "spell check" or "Thesaurus" on copied text.  I get a message
that word can not find the msspell3.dll or the mssp232.dll files.
However if I type new text at the bottom of the copied text both

Posting again, this I accidentally posted this topic as a reply instead of a
new post...
OK, I have a book of short stories and I want to make a dictionary of all
the words contained in the stories.There is a total of about 8,000 words.

  It seems if I want to change a letter, number, etc.,
in a sentence, when I go to the point to insert and begin
typing, the sentence begins erasing and I have to retype
the entire sentence as my letters begin typing over the

The Spellchecker in word 2000 doesn't work properly after installing
visio 2003.
After typing a bogus word and pressing <F7> (Spellcheck) it just says
that the spellcheck is finished. This problem started after Visio 2003

WE have multiple systems running Windows XP,Office 97 SR-1
and Outlook 2003. On these machines when using Word, if
you type in any word and then select Thesaurus from the
spelling and grammar menu, it give no synonyms. Is there a

I have this problem that I have the word walla walla
appear many times in the document. I would not like to see
this word underline in red curly line as spelling mistake.
Can anyone tell me any way to do this.

Using Ofice 2003 and inputting words with macrons while in
English (US). For several years, these recorded properly in
custom.dic and spell-checked properly. Now suddenly all
words with macrons in custom.dic display with a ? replacing

Word 2002 spell checker find mis-spelled words but
doesn't list suggestion for correct spelling. The box
where the suggestions would be is always blank. I have
English (usa) selected as my language. I cant find the

I am using en English version of Word 2003 and have
noticed that the hyphenation does not work when I work
with Swedish as default language.
What to do ?

Is it possible to include phrases in an exclude dictionary to effectively
remove them from the Word main dictionary?
This has worked well for me with single words, but I'm wondering if there is
any way to include phrases in the Mssp3en.exc file. Just listing the phrases