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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / October 2005Cant change dictionaries in Word OSX 10.3.8
I've tried to change dictionaries by following the instructions within Word and it says its on English (Australian), but when spell check is used it says English (US). Any ideas? > I've tried to change dictionaries by following the instructions within > Word and it says its on English (Australian), but when spell check is > used it says English (US). Any ideas? I know the problem. I've always had trouble making these changes stick. I have found that you get better results choosing English (UK) than Australian, and always clicking the box to make it the default. In some versions, you can't get the Thesaurus to work unless you choose UK over Australian either. What version of Word is it? Rifty  SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > > I've tried to change dictionaries by following the instructions within > > Word and it says its on English (Australian), but when spell check is [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Academic and Computing Help > http://rifty.net Hi. I'm on Word 11.0.0. I changed to English UK and it seems to be working ok... so far. Thanks > I've tried to change dictionaries by following the instructions within > Word and it says its on English (Australian), but when spell check is > used it says English (US). Any ideas? Yep. You have to do it in two places: First select some text. Then, under the "Tools" menu, select "Language". Choose English (AUS) from the list and then click on "Default" to make it the language for future documents. Then, choose "spelling and grammar" from the same menu. Click on "options". Click on "dictionaries", select "English (AUS)". Also select "Custom Dictionary". Click "ok". That should fix it. Peter SignaturePeter McCallum Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA Hey Peter. Your a legend, all working good now, thanks. Lowbotone > Hey Peter. Your a legend, all working good now, thanks. > > Lowbotone I had the same problem myself a few weeks back and asked a question on microsoft.public.mac.office.word newsgroup. They are very helpful people, keep it in mind if you have any Word problems. Peter SignaturePeter McCallum Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA What did they say? It seems I'm still having trouble. Word just changes from English UK, back to English US on a regular basis. No matter how many times you change, make default, whatever... it cant take the hint! > What did they say? It seems I'm still having trouble. Word just > changes from English UK, back to English US on a regular basis. No > matter how many times you change, make default, whatever... it cant > take the hint! This is a known bug with Word. In all the OSX systems and Word programs I've ever used, none of them ever dealt with converting to the UK dictionary on a permanent basis. Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > What did they say? It seems I'm still having trouble. Word just > changes from English UK, back to English US on a regular basis. No > matter how many times you change, make default, whatever... it cant > take the hint! Are you sure that you aren't just going back to old documents that have already been created with English US as the language. If you make English (AUS) your default language then all new documents should be created using that dictionary. AUS is better than UK for us because it contains place names and other words peculiar to Australia. Peter SignaturePeter McCallum Mackay Qld AUSTRALIA |
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