Setting Word 2007 to recognise British English

[Toby Frost]

Hello,

Does anyone know how to set Word 2007 to recognise (so not recognize) all documents opened in it as British (UK) English, please? I'm getting tired of the spell checker telling me that "colour" is wrong!

Thanks,

Toby.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

*watches with interest*

 

[Droflet]

Just go to spellcheck click on languages and select English British. Easy peasy.

 

[The Judge]

Under “File” there is “Options” and under that is “Language” and “Choose Editing Language” which should have US and UK options.

 

[Toby Frost]

Found it. Under "Review" there is a button called "set language" about a quarter of the way in from the left. You click that and then click "English - United Kingdom", then "default" and then "Yes". That seems to work on everything in Word.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Just go to spellcheck click on languages and select English British. Easy peasy.

On mine no matter how many times I do this it defaults back to US straight away

 

[Droflet]

Not a problem for me, Jo. And I use windows seven. Odd.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Also don’t use templates.

pH

 

[Cathbad]

If I want my sentence to sound British, I just add a couple u's!

 

[Ursa major]

That's no use if you have non-U characters....

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[Venusian Broon]

I've had problems with this too, except I've got Word 2013.

The way that seems to work for me is:

select the entire text. (Ctrl-A for those that don't know)
Then go to the Review tab and there's a language button. Just change all of them to English United Kingdom (I have two: Proofing and Language options)

For some reason just changing the language while you haven't highlighted the text does not mean 'the whole document must be in UK English' I think it probably would be in UK English if you immediately started typing where the cursor is but as soon as you mouse to another part, you'll probably come across an old patch of US English - so make sure you've nuked everything with UK English.