Word Spellchecker - Was Re: Correct Grammar

[Jill]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" 
<valkyrievixen at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > And on a slightly related note does anyone know why my spell 
checker 
> > in word occasionally reverts back to American instead of English I
> > (which is what have it set as)? I get really irritated with it 
when it 
> > suddenly decides to tell me to replace my s with z (in -ise) and 
get .
> > rid of the u (colour etc)
> > K
> > 
> 
> Valky:
> 
> I wish I knew. I had given up after, a few times, re-setting the
> spellcheck to English just to be sure it was on. I suppose that it 
may
> be that the creator of the English word list possessed only limited
> knowledge of the language. I resolved that it might have been a 
person
> who was native to American- English who compiled the list. 
> 
> Does anyone else know how we might get word to stop changing our
> words.. ;D

Jill:
I'm going to take a wild (well, maybe not wild) guess.  What language 
is your operating system set to?  Go to Start > Settings > Control 
Panel and then Regional and Language Options (I have Windows XP and 
if you don't it may be a bit different).  Mine is set to English 
(United States) and I wonder if maybe that's Microsoft's default.  
Maybe Word looks at the computer's setting each time it is launched 
and uses that over the setting from your previous Word session.  If 
it isn't already set correctly, try changing your computer's setting 
to English (United Kingdom), and then see what happens in Word.  At 
least it's something to try!

Jill
(who has a techie day job...can you tell?)