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I am an Aussie living in Perth, WA, and I'm running sys. 8.1 and office 2013. Okay, now for the problem. I have followed advice sourced from the web on how to download the Australian English Dictionary and make it my default dictionary. So far so good but that's where it ends.

When I begin to spell & grammar check my document, the default for the first word check is Australian Dictionary. From then on however, it reverts automatically to US dictionary.

This is a real pain as you can imagine unless you are an American. Is this a deliberate control freak issue from the US or is it that there is a way to remove the US Dictionary once and for all but is not obvious? If anyone knows how to remove the US dictionary, please let me know. If I leave it and try to go around it, I just know that US dictionary will throw another fit and jump back in. I have a lot of paperwork to get through and I don't want to sound like a pseudo American when I publish.

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I have followed advice sourced from the web on how to download the Australian English Dictionary and make it my default dictionary. So far so good but that's where it ends.
I don't know what advice that was, but I don't know of any that might be relevant, since you shouldn't need to download anything. All you should need to do is:
a) make sure your computer's regional & keyboard settings are all properly configured for Australia & Australian English; and
b) set Australian English as the default proofing language in Word (e.g. in File|Options|Languages),
including removal of the US English keyboard/language options. Having done that on my system, Australian English is always the default.
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Hi Paul,

Yes I did the same as you with an exception or two. I had to download the Australian Dictionary which only took a few seconds and installed itself, because I received the message repeatedly, that it wasn't installed. After a while I believed it because although I had enabled it, the button to push to make it the default, was greyed out.

Once downloaded, it became the default automatically ... until you used it. Or rather it probably stayed the default but the US dictionary ignored that.

Anyway, the good news is, that I found that I had overlooked something. This is an excerpt that I found in an old forum six years old, relating to an earlier version of Word but which rang a bell straight away. This is it:

'Word proofs text according to the language set in the formatting of the text. You can change this for selected text using the Set Language option on the Review ribbon.'

Of course I went straight to the ribbon, found that the US Dictionary was still the preferred one, did the deed and haven't had a problem since. I have been working for nearly four hours on my documents without a problem after setting the language option once again, from US to Australian Dictionary.

Your version of MS Office 2013 may be the more expensive one Paul, with a lot of extra's thrown in. Mine is the Education version, which although has some shortcomings for those who may need them, it is fine for me.
Thanks for your reply.

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Anyway, the good news is, that I found that I had overlooked something. This is an excerpt that I found in an old forum six years old, relating to an earlier version of Word but which rang a bell straight away. This is it:

'Word proofs text according to the language set in the formatting of the text. You can change this for selected text using the Set Language option on the Review ribbon.'

Of course I went straight to the ribbon, found that the US Dictionary was still the preferred one, did the deed and haven't had a problem since.
That's basically what I said at (b) above.
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Your version of MS Office 2013 may be the more expensive one Paul, with a lot of extra's thrown in. Mine is the Education version, which although has some shortcomings for those who may need them, it is fine for me.
All Office versions come with the same proofing tools, etc. Aside from Office Basic, that comes pre-loaded on some computers, the only difference between, say, a Home & Student version and a Professional version concerns which applications are included, not what those applications support.
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