Re: Changing Word X dictionary from US spelling to UK

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Daiya Mitchell <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Daiya,

> Well, I was just quoting John McGhie. But here's a thread where it helped
> people, if you want to investigate. Let me know what you find out. :)
>
> <http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office/browse_frm/
> thread/8d4ca608e35b2894/4bf88507c3194dab?q=AWOL&rnum=1#4bf88507c3194dab>

Right I remember this thread now. The last post is most puzzling to me.
I suspect something went on at the same time. I made some more tests
yesterday evening and no matter what, there was no relationship between
whatever was selected in the International prefpane and the proofing
tools that were available to me in Word.

You might have noticed actually that one of the messages mentions that
the UK proofing tools were available in Entourage and not Word...

Anyway, no problem here for me spell-checking in French or Spanish with
only the US layout selected :-)


> And this person never replied, so that may have been it, as Tools | Language
> did not fix it:
> <http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word/browse
> _frm/thread/8cd3bbc89ff98884/34352d77d13f031f?q=quoting+john+mcghie&rnum=6#3
> 4352d77d13f031f>
>
> It's conceivable that the slight editing I did on John's text is what has
> thrown you off, so these threads have the original.


I really don't know :-\
I just tried switching text from US English to UK then Australian
(without having the layouts selected) and Word was just fine.

According to Apple, the International prefpane lets you do several
things:
- select language for the user interface of the apps (which Word can't
use since the app is not "packaged", VPC will though).
- select the time, date and number formats (which Office uses)
- let you select the input method telling the system what keyboard
layout you use. This doesn't tell the apps what language you are typing
in, just the layout of the keys on your keyboard. Most people never ever
change the layout (but they can use multiple languages in Word just
fine). The only ones I know who have to either have two different
keyboards (I do) or also use their keyboard to type in different
alphabets (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew).


Corentin


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