US Spelling on UK PC

[RayMunro]

Hi!

I have a problem where outgoing e-mails are spell checked in US English. I have set UK globally, in Word and Excel and in the spelling options within Outlook. I am using XP Pro and Office 2003.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ray

 

[kjv1611]

Maybe you can find a UK-based english dictionary? That is where the spell-checking is done - against any included dictionaries. So, I would think there would be one available out on the www, or maybe even at support.microsoft.com

 

[tf1]

Is your keyboard set to English UK? Are yu using Word as your email editor? If yes, in Word under Tools, Language, set Language, do you have the Automatically check Language checkbox cleared?


Regards: tf1

 

[RayMunro]

My Keyboard is UK. I have the check spelling box ticked because I want it to check my spelling. Word is my email editor but if I use Word by itself it uses UK spelling but when used through outlook it changes to US.

Weird Huh?

ray

 

[tf1]

Slight ambiguity here on my part. I understand that you have a UK keyboard, but in Control Panel, is the keyboard set to English (UK)?

Under Tools, Language, Set Language, you should not need to have Automatically Detect Language checked. This has nothing to do with enabling/disabling Spelling and Grammar checking: this solely to detect the language of the document opened (or email).

If you open an email to edit and it is set to English (US), it will switch proofing to English (US). (You would be surprised how many UK users have their language set to English (US) for emails!) Unfortunately, it never seems to switch back when you have closed the email, so if you go to compose another email, it will be in English (US).



Regards: tf1

 

[RayMunro]

Thanks Tf1,

I've tries all your ideas. Everthing I can find is set to UK. All programs spell check in UK wxcept Outlook which is in US.

Ray

 

[tf1]

Search for mail.dot (I thik, but it may be email.dot) and rename it mail.bad. Does that resolve the problem?



Regards: tf1

 

[RayMunro]

Hi tf1

Sorry but I found it changed it and no change. Still US.

Ray

 

[tf1]

Run Detect and Repair from the Help Menu. Then try changing it to something different, rebooting and then change back to English UK.

Do you have any Add-ins such as any Adobe or Norton/Symantec utilities that are screwing up Office?


Regards: tf1

 

[RayMunro]

I have run detect and repair. The language tab then became visible in new messages in Outlook. I changed the language in Word to Afrikaans and defaulted it. On reboot it had changed to English UK.

However I can now select laguages when I start a new message in Outlook but, even though i default it, It changes back to US when the next message is started.

I also found copies of email.dot. The language was set to US so I changed to UK and defaulted and saved the changes. But when I reopened the file it had gone back to US. I renamed the files to .bad

I run Norton Internet Security and this has not been a problem in Outlook before. But I have turned it off and closed the Antispam tool bar. But on restarting Outlook it is open again.

Thanks again for your ideas.

 

[tf1]

Well I am out of ideas other than format C: and start with a fresh installation. Outlook just shouldn't be doing it. Normally it is either a corrupt mail.dot or some third party utility inhibiting the changes being saved (and it usually inhibits Word as well as Outlook). It is beyond me that it remembers Afrikaans but not English UK. There's just no logic to this problem especially as the Automatically Detect Languages option is disabled.


Regards: tf1

 

[RayMunro]

Thanks anyway.

Good Luck

Ray

 

[RayMunro]

HeY!!

I've solved it. Hidden in Programs/Microsft Office/ Microsoft Tools is 2003 language settings and here there is an option to default to US.

Changing that to UK solved it.

Ray

 

[tf1]

If this is Microsoft Office 2003 Language Setting tool, you can open it and uninstall English (US).


Regards: tf1