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Microsoft Word 2003? I keep having to change the dictionary setting when spell-checking to UK English from US English. It didn’t matter how many times I did that, the spell check would flip back immediately to US English. The way to prevent this happening is to make sure that the normal.dot template is itself set to your dictionary of choice.
To do this, open a new Microsoft Word document, cut and paste some text into it from somewhere, and then click on Tools/Language/Set Language and select English (UK). Next, whilst English (UK) is highlighted, and the option Detect language automatically is selected, click on the Default button. You should get a message indicating that the template.dot template will be changed and that all new documents from now on will use the UK dictionary by default. Microsoft Word 2007?
Hello All, June 11, 2011 MS Office 2011 for MAC has problems with Arabic BUT PowerPoint does support Arabic, Word does not by default but I found a solution to make it accept Arabic writing. Excel does not support Arabic yet. To change the spell-check (master) language for all the slides you selected, click on the Language button, and click 'Set Proofing Language'. It should come up with a small dialogue box that reads 'French' for the default language (It might read 'French (Canadian)').
If you need to set the default dictionary for Word 2007, please see the following article about. On John T’s original post the instructions for changing options inside word refer to word 2007 for word 2003 substitute 3. Go to Start All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Tools Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings and add your preferred language to the ‘Enabled editing languages’ list box if it is not already there. Then in the bottom section of the same dialog box, set your preferred language as the ‘Primary editing language’. Start Microsoft Word itself and go to the main menu tabs and select Tools Language Set language and then select your preferred language and click on the Default button, which will bring up a dialog asking “Do you want to change the default language to? This change will affect all documents based on the NORMAL template”. Click on the Yes button and then the OK button to return to Microsoft Word one of the most effective tools I found was to copy and paste the instructions into a word document to use as a reference.
When it is in US dictionary it objects to the spelling of customise (the US spelling is customize) if the language changes works the red correction lines will disappear. Changing the default dictionary language in Word. After some research & trials, these settings have worked robustly for me.
These steps will setup the basic defaults in Win XP SP3 and Word 2007 (they have not been tested on Vista or Win7 or versions of Word, but I would expect them to be similar): 1. Set your preferred language in the Control Panel Regional and Language Options Regional Options dialog 2.
Set your preferred language in the Control Panel Regional and Language Options Languages Details Default Input Langage 3. Go to Start All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Tools Microsoft Office 2007 Language Settings and add your preferred language to the ‘Enabled editing languages’ list box if it is not already there. Then in the bottom section of the same dialog box, set your preferred language as the ‘Primary editing language’. Start Microsoft Word itself and go to the main menu tabs and select Review Proofing Set language and then select your preferred language and click on the Default button, which will bring up a dialog asking “Do you wnat to change the default language to? This change will affect all documents based on the NORMAL template”.
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Click on the Yes button and then the OK button to return to Microsoft Word 5. As a dutiful Microsoft follower, reboot your machine (some changes in the Regional Settings do not take effect till after a reboot). At this point it is very convenient to customise your Status Bar in Word to display the current dictionary language being applied to the current position in your document.
Right click on the status Bar in Word to bring up the Customise Status Bar dialog and then click on Language if it is not already selected. Word is actually quite smart – you can set different selections of text within the one document to be spell-checked against different language dictionaries when you do a spelling check. It works similarly to the way you can set some text to display as bold, other text as italic and the remainder of the document as plain text. If your preferred dictionary language is, say, English(Australian) then you can have some text spell-checked against that, other text against the English(U.S.) dictionary and yet further text in the same document checked against the French dictionary – without changing your default preferred language setting at all. You do this by selecting the text you wish to assign (or Ctrl-A for the whole document) then selecting the particular language dictionary you want to allocate to it from either the main menu’s Review Proofing Set language dialog box or from the dialog box that comes up when you click on your preferred language setting displayed in the Status Bar. Hope this helps, John. In my case, everything (Regional Options/OS default language, MS Word etc) is set to English (UK).
And I can even see English (U.K.) on the Word document taskbar when typing, as Rabia mentioned. But as soon as I start spell checking any document, the daft thing switches back to English (US)! I mean, the spell checker automatically selects “Dictionary Language: English (US)” even though English (UK) is pre-set! I go back to Tools-Langauge-Set Language and English (UK) is STILL selected as the default language!! I also noticed: 1) “Detect Language Aoutomatically” under ‘Language’ menu is greyed out and 2) If I open a blank sheet under Word and I type text directly, English (UK) will be used for spell checking.
But if I paste text into Word from anywhere else, then English (US) will be used instead! Any idea what might be going here, please? In particular, how can I get back that greyed option of “Detect Language Aoutomatically”? Thanks in advance. Cultural Imperialism? And the sun would “never set upon the British Empire”.
It’s ironic how presumptive that statement was. Much of the world’s problems today are based upon the arbitrary borders placed by Her Majesty’s engineers, such as the Durand Line between Afghanstan and the FATA area. Most of Africa is in the same dilemma when nationalism, language and resources were contorted into boundaries to suit the exploitation of the Europeans. You may not like the U.S., but you can jolly well get used to Eurabia. Almost without exception, your former colonies had to fight for their independence, unlike the vast number of countries the United States has freed from oppression, and very obviously you’d be typing on a German keyboard were it not for us.
After struggling with this issue for many years, I found the Holy Grail of getting rid of English U.S once and for all. Stage 1: First of all, in Windows XP, begin with going to the Control Panel – Regional and Language Settings – Languages – Detail. Here you need to select from the drop-down menu, a default input language. This needs to be (EN) English – United Kingdom – US. If you don’t have this option in the drop down menu, then proceed to the Installed Services option directly below. You should see a box with some options and an ‘Add’ and ‘Remove’ button to the side. Select Add – and choose English – UK as your default input language in the menu that shows up next, BUT specify “US” for the keyboard layout unless you KNOW your keyboard is a different layout.
(If you notice your keyboard acting strangely after this change, you will need to set it to the right layout here). After clicking OK,you should see the new Installed Service profile in the box to the left. “EN – English United Kingdom Keyboard layout – US” If you want, you can delete the other services, I did, because I never wanted the default to be USever! Then, go back to the first part, and from the drop-down menu, choose your new installed service, which should be “EN – English UK – US”, the US here is the keyboard layout. Once this is done, click ok to confirm the changes and exit the Control Panel.
Next open up Search. Stage 2: Click search files and folders, and from the options below, tick advanced and select “search system files” “search sub folders” “search hidden files and folders”.
Then search for this document: “Normal.dot” – this is your default MS word template. When it shows up, you need only search in the directory where MS Office is installed, right click on the right file which should be around 30 kb, not the other ‘ghosts’ and open it. It should open a blank document. Type any odd letter, and check the status bar. If it detects English UKyou’re good, you can move to stage 4, directly. Stage 3: If the English US is the exasperating result, THEN, to to Tools – Language – Set Language.
Choose English U.K as default and click ok to save changes to the TEMPLATE. Next, highlight and delete the letter/word you’d typed before.
Try not to use backspace, use the delete key. Once you’re sure the document is blank, save it and exit. Stage 4: God willing, when you launch MS Word again, it should default to English UK.
If it does, say a prayer and damn Microsoft to the deepest corners of the most painful hell and send a few to support OpenOffice.org. Yay, I can type ‘colour’ again!