Re: How can I set Word to query/reject American English spellings?
- From: "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:36:10 +0300
This is an American application on an American operating system, so the
defaults are of course biased to the US. Those defaults can all be changed
to local conditions. Problem is that many people do not read what the
messages on the screen say when installing Windows.
Word sets its installation defaults to match whatever language options you
have set in Windows, so start with Windows regional settings..
The proofing language for a given text is a paragraph attribute. Apply the
appropriate attribute and the spell check will be based on the language you
select.
Unless you turn off that option Word will attempt to auto detect the
language of a given text. Turn it off from tools > language > set language.
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tygrus wrote:
The system is still skewed to users in the USA.
Can enough of us complain to Microsoft to make it easier.
Separate US-English from the base. If I select English(Australia) I
don't want US spelling being allowed.
Show summary of language settings in hierarchy eg. show OS setting and
Office global setting in Word language dialog (or sub-dialog). That
way you can actually see where the possible problem is, flag
inconsistencies and help users to go and fix the problem.
When installing Office is should check and ask to change relevant
settings to match desired defaults. MS Windows setup should also
follow the logic of location->language to show defaults for the other
settings (A4 paper, English(Australian) keyboard, date format,
timezone etc.)
They should also make it easier to set these globally for all
current/new users.
The MS help do not fully explain the system and controls to
troubleshoot.
Regards,
tygrus.
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"Shauna Kelly" wrote:
Hi Peter
There are several things going on here, and it's worth unravelling
them.
First, to ensure that everything on your machine is set up
appropriately for UK English, then you have to set the Windows,
Office and Word settings appropriately. See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm for more
information.
Second, some words, such as 'agonising' and 'organisation' are
problematic. While these are common ways of spelling these words,
few etymologists would agree that they are appropriate spellings.
For example, there is no entry in the OED for agonise or agonising.
The OED says that all such words end
in -ize, -izing etc. So the MS Word spellchecker, quite rightly,
won't mark 'agonizing' as incorrect, even in UK English.
Finally, some words, like traveller, are easily solved. My machine
is set up with Australian English in Windows and Word. There, if I
type 'traveler', Word's AutoCorrect kicks in and automatically
changes it to 'traveller'. However, even if I mark the text as UK
English, Word tells me that 'traveler' is wrong. So the easiest way
around words like that is to add a new entry to the AutoCorrect list
at Tools > AutoCorrect Options
Whether American characters should have their dialog spelled in
'American' is a matter of personal style, I would think.
Hope this helps.
Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
"Peter-the-Scribe" <Peter-the-Scribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Writing in 'English English', I would like Word to query non-English
words.
It has no problem querying the occasional French, Greek or Italian
words which turn up in my stories, but if I use an American English
spelling, e.g.
'traveler' instead of 'traveller', 'agonizing' instead of
'agonising', the spelling checker will not point out the error of
my ways. (I wonder sometimes
if an American character's dialogue should be written with American
English
spellings, rather as I might include the occasional French phrase
in the dialogue of a French one? What do you think?)
In short, is there any way of turning off the US English dictionary?
.
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