Specifying English(UK) dictionary

Allan B · #1 04-13-2018, 08:20 AM

In Office for Mac, how to stop the original language dictionary coming back and switch to English (UK) dictionary?

Guessed · #2 04-13-2018, 08:26 PM

The dictionary is configurable at the text level so different paragraphs can be spell checked with different dictionaries. To fix this comprehensively, you need to ensure all paragraph styles have your chosen language applied to them and also that there is no local language settings applied that would override the style language setting. This should be done in your template first and then applied to each existing document.

There are hundreds of styles in even the most basic template so this can be a big task that is simplified greatly by using a macro.

Code:

Sub SetLanguage()
  'Changes all the styles in the document to UK spelling
  Dim aStyle As Style
  For Each aStyle In ActiveDocument.Styles
    If aStyle.Type = wdStyleTypeParagraph Then
      aStyle.LanguageId = wdEnglishUK
    End If
  Next aStyle
  ActiveDocument.Range.LanguageId = wdEnglishUK
End Sub

Charles Kenyon · #3 04-14-2018, 02:35 AM

Expanding on what Andrew said, this setting is not just in Styles.

The "proofing language" is a key to several Word features including spelling and grammar and AutoCorrect. It is not an application-wide setting nor even a document setting; it is set at the character level!

Generally, you want to have the feature to automatically detect language turned off. Word is not very good at this.

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