How do I remove English (US) as a default language?

You need to set Windows Regional Options setting to English Australia
From the Languages tab Details on the same dialog
You should have English Australia as the input language with the keyboard
setting matching the pattern of your keyboard.
If you don't have that then add it.
Remove any other keyboards and input languages and OK out of the dialog.
Reboot to remove the English US if present.
Re-check the dialog. Does it now only show English - Australia?
Note that every character of a document has a language formatting parameter.
If you paste material from the web, it will almost certainly be formatted as
English US.
If the language settings in Word are not holding, close Word and delete or
rename the data key in the registry
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm.
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My web site www.gmayor.com
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David wrote:
I am using Word 2007/ XP Pro and have tried all suggestions but still
cannot get the spellchecher to default to Australian English.
(Windows language setting set to Australian, Office language setting
set to Australian, Auto detect turned off, Word language defaulted to
Australian - saved to normal.dot.). What have I not done? Surely it
is a bug in Word 2007? (Does microsoft want to standardise the world
to US spelling?)


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm and
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Karenish" wrote in message
...
I am with Rigadon, I am using my new word programme and am currently
writing
a 4000 word assignment in English (UK) I have tried to remove
English (US)
by deleting on the correct page. But close the page and re open it
and bingo
there is US again.
I can change to UK when I am on the current page, but as soon as I
scroll to
another page, or start a new one it defaults back to English (US) -
I have nothing against americans (grin), but we dont spell
specialise with a "z" so
the darn document is correcting my spelling to US each time and its
driving
me nuts. Have tried all of your suggestions and think it must be a
blip in
the system.

"David Stephensen" wrote:

I followed all of the instructions on the suggested page, including
removing
US English as a possible language in the Office 2003 Language
Settings.

I edited my normal.dot and set all styles to English Australia. I
set the
default language in normal.dot to English Australia.

Even after all this, when I start a new document it says US
English.

My workaround for each time you start a new document (which does
not make me
admire Word very much): Do all of the above for your language,
then start the
new doc, type one character, ctrl+a (select all), ctrl+space
(remove all character formats), ctrl+q (remove all paragraph
formats), then release your
selection. Now the doc is in the right language, as long as you
never delete
everything. If you delete everything it reverts to US English.

If you create a doc template with existing text, use the above
method, but
make sure the last paragraph of the doc template is not blank.
The last paragraph in a dot will always revert to US English if it
is blank.

Please try this and let me know how you go.

David