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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type
say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings.
Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
Graham,
For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English
set up in the regional settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Graham, For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it a registry
key change? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English set up in the regional settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Graham, For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
I have already told you earlier in the thread how to stop Word from checking
with US spellings. To Remove the US regional settings Control panel regional and language options languages details - select UK and delete US. It will be removed next time you reboot. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it a registry key change? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English set up in the regional settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Graham, For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
I do not have, and for a long time have not had, US in my regional settings.
As explained in http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm "You'll also still have problems with the document reverting back to the "bad" language while editing. There is no way to get rid of this problem in an existing file, short of recreating the file." So it is not just one unlucky user with this problem. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I have already told you earlier in the thread how to stop Word from checking with US spellings. To Remove the US regional settings Control panel regional and language options languages details - select UK and delete US. It will be removed next time you reboot. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it a registry key change? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English set up in the regional settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Graham, For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
Any time you open a document in which a different language is used, or when
you paste in text from such a document, you will be using the proofing tools for that language. When you paste in text, the language at the insertion point is the language of the pasted selection; if you continue typing at that point without changing the language, you will be using those proofing tools. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ant" wrote in message ... I do not have, and for a long time have not had, US in my regional settings. As explained in http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm "You'll also still have problems with the document reverting back to the "bad" language while editing. There is no way to get rid of this problem in an existing file, short of recreating the file." So it is not just one unlucky user with this problem. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I have already told you earlier in the thread how to stop Word from checking with US spellings. To Remove the US regional settings Control panel regional and language options languages details - select UK and delete US. It will be removed next time you reboot. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it a registry key change? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English set up in the regional settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Graham, For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
Yes. Which is fine if the language is Chinese but wrong if the language is a
variant of the rest of the document. But my real problem is that if I open Word and type the word Color it does not mark it as a bad spelling. Even after having followed every instruction to remove US from regional and Office settings. If someone could show me how to work around that 'bad' behaviour I could accept that pasted text is not checked in the language of the rest of the document. It's not what I want though of course. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Any time you open a document in which a different language is used, or when you paste in text from such a document, you will be using the proofing tools for that language. When you paste in text, the language at the insertion point is the language of the pasted selection; if you continue typing at that point without changing the language, you will be using those proofing tools. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ant" wrote in message ... I do not have, and for a long time have not had, US in my regional settings. As explained in http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm "You'll also still have problems with the document reverting back to the "bad" language while editing. There is no way to get rid of this problem in an existing file, short of recreating the file." So it is not just one unlucky user with this problem. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I have already told you earlier in the thread how to stop Word from checking with US spellings. To Remove the US regional settings Control panel regional and language options languages details - select UK and delete US. It will be removed next time you reboot. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it a registry key change? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English set up in the regional settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Graham, For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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How do I remove US english from the spell check?
When you select the word "color" and go to Tools | Language | Set Language,
is English (U.K.) selected? If so, then that spelling is accepted by the UK English proofing tools. If you want to disallow this spelling, you can exclude it. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm FWIW, if I type "color" here and then select the word and apply "English (U.K.)" as the language, it is marked as misspelled. Perhaps "color" has been added to your Custom.dic? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ant" wrote in message ... Yes. Which is fine if the language is Chinese but wrong if the language is a variant of the rest of the document. But my real problem is that if I open Word and type the word Color it does not mark it as a bad spelling. Even after having followed every instruction to remove US from regional and Office settings. If someone could show me how to work around that 'bad' behaviour I could accept that pasted text is not checked in the language of the rest of the document. It's not what I want though of course. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Any time you open a document in which a different language is used, or when you paste in text from such a document, you will be using the proofing tools for that language. When you paste in text, the language at the insertion point is the language of the pasted selection; if you continue typing at that point without changing the language, you will be using those proofing tools. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ant" wrote in message ... I do not have, and for a long time have not had, US in my regional settings. As explained in http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm "You'll also still have problems with the document reverting back to the "bad" language while editing. There is no way to get rid of this problem in an existing file, short of recreating the file." So it is not just one unlucky user with this problem. "Graham Mayor" wrote: I have already told you earlier in the thread how to stop Word from checking with US spellings. To Remove the US regional settings Control panel regional and language options languages details - select UK and delete US. It will be removed next time you reboot. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Please tell me how to remove the US English settings then. Is it a registry key change? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Of course you can. My PC is set up for UK English and I have no US English set up in the regional settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Ant wrote: Graham, For other languages you are right, but for English English for England this is not correct. You can not remove the US English for America setting. Antony PS I would dearly love this bug to be fixed. "Graham Mayor" wrote: The default language for Word is that set in Windows regional settings. Word will only spell check using the language defined for the text - see tools language set language (set to UK English or whatever) and uncheck the box 'Detect language automatically'. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org jeamsu wrote: I wish to remove the us english settings from my MS word, so that if I type say 'color' by mistake that it will not accept it as a correct word. It should give me 'colour' as the correct spelling. |
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