Percy Blakeney

By Percy Blakeney

There are times when you will write a correctly spelled English word and it will be corrected by the Spellchecker.

The word labour is a good example as I wrote it in a blog entry above and  it was underlined in red to indicate that the word was misspelled. It is not if you are in the UK!

This is a common issue. Word is often set with a US dictionary so it will highlight the words that are spelled differently in the UK from those in the US, such as colour tyres or night etc.

It is easily sorted out.

Here is what to do;

First click on Tools/Language/Set Language and highlight “English (UK)”, make sure the option ‘Detect language automatically’ is ticked and just click on the Default button.
There is a message about amending the Normal. Dot template to accept and that is it done.
No longer will Word correct your spelling when it is fine anyway!

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