How to change MS Word to English(UK) permanently?

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I'm sick and tired of Microsoft Word defaulting back to English(US) no matter how many times I change it to English(UK) both on the current document I'm working on and for the default template.

I'm running Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac - Snow Leopard.

I'd read that it was inseparably linked to the language settings of the OS but that is definitely set to English and the region specified to be UK.

Can anyone tell me how to change it and keep it changed?

It's organisation, not organization FFS :annoyed: (Incidentally, the built in spellcheck flagged organization as wrong here :thumbs:)

Typical that the one Microsoft product on my Mac is the only program to ever annoy me or crash :naughty:
 
I assume you are doing something like:

On the Tools menu, select Language.
In the Language dialog box, click the UK language that you want in the Mark selected text as list.

Click Default.

When you are prompted with the question of whether you want to change the default language, click Yes.

[Hold down the SHIFT key while you click the File menu, and then click Save All.- think this may only happen on older Word versions]

or you can try deselecting the "Detect language automatically"

Word will not prompt you to save the changes to the Normal.dot template unless you have selected the Prompt to Save Normal template option on the Save tab of the Options/Preferences dialog box. To view the Preferences dialog box, click Options/Preferences on the Tools menu.
 
lostsoulal2 said:
I assume you are doing something like:

On the Tools menu, select Language.
In the Language dialog box, click the UK language that you want in the Mark selected text as list.

Click Default.

When you are prompted with the question of whether you want to change the default language, click Yes.

[Hold down the SHIFT key while you click the File menu, and then click Save All.- think this may only happen on older Word versions]

or you can try deselecting the "Detect language automatically"

Word will not prompt you to save the changes to the Normal.dot template unless you have selected the Prompt to Save Normal template option on the Save tab of the Options/Preferences dialog box. To view the Preferences dialog box, click Options/Preferences on the Tools menu.
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Thanks for that. I've just tried going to Preferences>Spelling and Grammar and then under the custom dictionaries option I've selected the Language: English(UK) where it previously said (none). Doing this alongside the other changes seems to have maintained the default dictionary as English(UK) after closing and restarting Word. Hopefully it doesn't reset!
 
TriggerHappy said:
I'm sick and tired of Microsoft Word defaulting back to English(US) no matter how many times I change it to English(UK) both on the current document I'm working on and for the default template.

I'm running Microsoft Office 2008 on Mac - Snow Leopard.

I'd read that it was inseparably linked to the language settings of the OS but that is definitely set to English and the region specified to be UK.

Can anyone tell me how to change it and keep it changed?

It's organisation, not organization FFS :annoyed: (Incidentally, the built in spellcheck flagged organization as wrong here :thumbs:)

Typical that the one Microsoft product on my Mac is the only program to ever annoy me or crash :naughty:
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I hope that you have solved your problem, it can be really frustrating.

Unfortunately you chose a bad example with organization :)
The recognised English UK spelling is either organization or organisation with organiZation being preferred by the OED and most other dictionaries.
At school, a long time ago, I was told that organization was the original spelling, which is probably why the USA still uses it, but that organisation had crept in from the French language.
The media tends to use organisation so I suppose that it will eventually take over - but not yet :D
 
I use Open Office - download the English UK version and it does not even have English USA :D

You can however download additional other language dictionaries if you want.
 
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