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Word Starter Edition 2010 keeps changing my spellings to American...

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BertieBotts · 05/02/2013 01:12

Even though English UK is set as the language to spell check in! It's really annoying me and I can't work out how to change it. I tried adding US English and deleting it, but that didn't work. Have checked the language settings in Windows even.

I did restart Word between changing the options and it makes no difference. If I pull up the spell checker, it even says at the top "Spelling and Grammar: English (U.S.)" Yet in the options, it clearly shows English (U.K.) as the selected language. Confused

If anyone knows how to fix this I would be eternally grateful, as it keeps autocorrecting stuff and I keep missing it, and I'm on an English course, it's not going to look great if I keep handing stuff in with Americanised spellings all over it...

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wordyBird · 05/02/2013 15:43

I don't have Word Starter, but think you were right to go after the settings in Windows itself. IIRC there are two settings you have to look at.

What about Control Panel > Regional > Keyboard, or Formats and Languages? Are both UK English.

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BertieBotts · 05/02/2013 20:00

I'm on Windows 7 so region, keyboard and language are all one setting, and yes, it's on UK English there too :(

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