Australian Dictionary Issue

[kenrob]

Hi All,



I'm running Word 2016 on a Win 10 PC, and I cannot get it to accept Australian spelling.

I have the Austrralian dictionary ticked in proofing but, any time it comes across Australian spelling it tells me it's incorrect.

Is there something I have missed?

Cheers

Rob

[macropod]

Have you set 'Australian English' via File|Options|Language? Have you checked the language settings applicable to the actual content? have you gone to File|Options|Proofing and click the 'Recheck Document' button?

[kenrob]

Hi,

Yes, I have done all those things and it still refuses to accept Australian English, any further thoughts?

Cheers

Rob

[Guessed]

Content has to be tagged with a language. Different dictionaries can be applied to content at a character level (ie different words in a paragraph can have different dictionaries assigned). So the content needs to have the preferred dictionary flagged either by the style definitions or with local overrides.

So you need to select all and change the language. You SHOULD also amend all the styles in the document so that when new content is added and styled, it doesn't change to a different dictionary. This is easiest done with a macro.

Sub SetLanguage()
  'Created by Chrysalis Design Pty Ltd
  'Changes all content and styles in the document to Australian spelling
  Dim aStyle As Style, iLingua As Integer
  iLingua = wdEnglishAUS    'or wdEnglishUS or wdEnglishUK
  For Each aStyle In ActiveDocument.Styles
    If aStyle.Type = wdStyleTypeParagraph Then
      aStyle.LanguageId = iLingua
    End If
  Next aStyle
  ActiveDocument.Range.LanguageId = iLingua
End Sub

[kenrob]

Hey, I figured it out. When I opened the spelling check, F7, there was an option in that box to change it there and that worked. No idea why it did not work the normal way.


Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Rob