Spellcheck set to English UK but checking is in English US!

has anybody in the Australian, New Zealand, or United Kingdom English
speaking world, developed an "Exclusion Dictionary" as suggested in the
thread?


"Brian" wrote:

> Sorry for joining in so late.
>
> I had this problem a few months ago with a set of documents for edit. It
> turned out that someone had created styles, and included the language setting
> within the styles. This over rides the default settings.
>
> Hope this suggestion helps,
> --
> Brian McCaffery
>
>
> "Malcolm Walker" wrote:
>
> > My apologies for this tardy response. I too think I have been doing
> > everything right!
> >
> > >Have you checked the language assigned to the dictionary, i.e. Tools,
> > Options, Spelling & Grammar, Custom Dictionaries, >Modify. Do you see
> > EnglishUK, US, or All Languages?
> >
> > It was set to `All languages' so I reset it to English (UK) and the
> > spell checking behaviour did not change.
> >
> > >Maybe someone else on the Newsgroup will chip in here with the correct
> > >procedure for Registry changes.
> >
> > Not so far; my searches are based on your pointers and my guesswork. I haven't turned up with anything relevant yet.
> >
> > DeanH wrote:
> > > Hmmm, puzzling. You seem to have been doing everything right from what I can
> > > see.
> > >
> > > Have you checked the language assigned to the dictionary, i.e. Tools,
> > > Options, Spelling & Grammar, Custom Dictionaries, Modify. Do you see English
> > > UK, US, or All Languages?
> > > Also have you checked all your styles and templates, that none of these have
> > > English (US) in their settings?
> > >
> > > If this is all OK, then the only thing I can think that is causing the
> > > conflict is the Language Registry Code, which is set upon install. Sometime
> > > ago I had a spurious French (France) appearing, as well as English US, and it
> > > turned out that because my new build (going from Word 2000 on 2000 to Word
> > > 2003 on XP) was done in-house and the disks were bought in France (I work for
> > > a French company – stop… don't turn-off), and even though the IT chappie did
> > > the build in English and told everything to be in English, the default
> > > language was French! So the only remedy was to go into the Registry and
> > > change the Language code to English (UK), which has solved my problems of
> > > both French and US.
> > >
> > > English (UK) code is 2057 (LCID Dec) but please check on
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx
> > > Where this is changed I am not entirely sure as I tend to stay away from the
> > > Registry like the plague
> > > Maybe someone else on the Newsgroup will chip in here with the correct
> > > procedure for Registry changes.
> > >
> > > ps. I am happy with 'pee' for 'p'.
> > > My philosophy is the 3Rs, Rest, Recuperation, and Remuneration!
> > >
> > > Hope this helps and best of luck.
> > > DeanH
> > >
> > >
> > > "Malcolm Walker" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> >Try selecting the whole document (Ctrl+A) and resetting the language
> > >> to English UK.
> > >>
> > >> This is how I reset the language whenever I have had a document reach me
> > >> with the spell check not set in English (UK). It is also how I have
> > >> been trying to reset the default language following creating the
> > >> exclusions file.
> > >>
> > >> I'll try the three pees - patience, perseverance and when they fail
> > >> prayer! (How does one spell `p'? {8)
> > >>
> > >> Malcolm
> > >>
> > >> DeanH wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Try selecting the whole document (Ctrl+A) and reseting the language to
> > >>> English UK.
> > >>> The Exclusion Doctionary will not change the language settings in any
> > >>> template/document but will for example always 'not' allow "center".
> > >>> Check the language settings of your Styles in all of your templates. Some
> > >>> may have picked up the English US default.
> > >>> Clicking the Default on the Language dialog box unfortunately wont change
> > >>> these settings.
> > >>> Try to perserve with the exclusion dictionary, it will (eventually) sort
> > >>> this problem out (cross-fingers).
> > >>> Hope this helps.
> > >>> DeanH
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> "Malcolm Walker" wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Thank you very much for your reply; I am grateful but I don't think it
> > >>>> is the answer. When I created the exclusion file all it did was to
> > >>>> ignore `center'. It did not correct it to `centre'. I think this is
> > >>>> because the spell checker has reverted to English (US) and refuses to
> > >>>> accept as default English (UK). So I am now worse off than before I
> > >>>> created the exclusion. Then I had a spell checker telling me it was in
> > >>>> English (UK) and checking in English (US). Now by default it is in
> > >>>> English (US) and checking in English (US)!
> > >>>>
> > >>>> For the two years I have used Word 2002 English (UK) has been the
> > >>>> default language and the accuracy was 100%. What caused the current
> > >>>> behaviour I have no idea. I have to wonder if it could be a recent MS
> > >>>> Windows Update?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Malcolm
> > >>>>
> > >>>> DeanH wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> You have hit a main problem with Word, you may see the Custom.dic but behind
> > >>>>> that is Word's own built-in dictionary, which contains both US and UK
> > >>>>> spellings, and unfortunately this built-in cannot be edited.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> But all is not lost, to counter this dictionary you can create an
> > >>>>> "Exclusions" dictionary which can counter the US spellings (if that is the
> > >>>>> language you wish to counter), have a look at this site:
> > >>>>> http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/excludewordfromdic.htm
> > >>>>> The instructions are a bit long winded, but once you have this file it is a
> > >>>>> god-send.
> > >>>>> The inclusion of words into the exclusions dictionary is a manual process,
> > >>>>> ie not through the "add to dictionary", but through Notepad or some-such
> > >>>>> application.
> > >>>>> Hope this helps
> > >>>>> DeanH
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Hope this helps
> > >>>>> DeanH
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> "Malcolm Walker" wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> I have Word 2002 and Tools | Language | `Mark selected text as: English
> > >>>>>> (UK)' is highlighted. `Do not check spelling or grammar' and `Detect
> > >>>>>> language automatically' are unticked. In confirming the settings I have
> > >>>>>> clicked the Default button and a dialogue appeared asking for
> > >>>>>> confirmation that I want to change the default language to English
> > >>>>>> (UK). I then clicked Yes and OK.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> When I open the spell checker its window has the title `Spelling and
> > >>>>>> Grammar: English (U.K.). But the the highlighted spell checking errors
> > >>>>>> are to change correctly spelt words in English (UK) to their English
> > >>>>>> (US) spelling. For example: `centre' to `center' with the alternative
> > >>>>>> of `canter'. Another example is `organiser' to `organizer'.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> I have checked the custom.dic file for these words and they do not
> > >>>>>> appear in that file. I have also checked the Regional and Language
> > >>>>>> Options in Control Panel and all appears to be in order there set to
> > >>>>>> English (United Kingdom).
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> I would appreciate any help to correct this strange behaviour.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Malcolm Walker
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> >

AJM wrote:
> has anybody in the Australian, New Zealand, or United Kingdom English
> speaking world, developed an "Exclusion Dictionary" as suggested in the
> thread?

I have an exclusion dictionary and both my PC and myself are set to
English(UK).

My needs were simple; to exclude the word "poser" from the built-in
dictionary, so it becomes a mis-spelling, as in "the poser supply in
your PC".

I don't see any previous posts in this thread, so cannot comment on the
creation mechanism. It involved manually editing the exclusion list; I
remember doing that.

--
Steve Swift
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