I am resigned to believe there is no way to remove English(US) from the

Spellchecker in Word 2003 and was hoping someone could give me a link to a

Microsoft article that states this to be true.



I have been on the following site which states "You can't get rid of the

English(US) spell-checker" http://msmvps.com/thinice/articles/39610.aspx



We have users who would like the spellchecker to highlight words like

"realize" as incorrect and suggest "realise".



I have checked the following on Windows 2000 and XP :

Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Office Tools\Microsoft Office

2003 Language Settings - Both default and enabled are set to English

(Australia)



Regional and Languages - All set to English (Australia), Keyboard US



In Word - Tools, Language, Set Language - both English (Australia) and

English (US) appear.



To sum up, I just need a link to a document that states that the

Spellchecker in Word 2003 has English (US) installed and cannot be removed.



Unless someone knows of a way.....via a reghack or deleting certain files ?



Cheers

Hi =?Utf-8?B?Q3JhaWc=?=,



> To sum up, I just need a link to a document that states that the

> Spellchecker in Word 2003 has English (US) installed and cannot be removed.

>

All languages are "bundled" into the same dictionary (*.lex file), the

exception being Australian: MSSP3ENA.LEX



So I don't think you'll find a site that will tell you this. However, there's

no way to explicitly uninstall one "flavor" of any language. But you have to

realize that even if you could uninstall US English, that wouldn't

necessarily prevent it from appearing in a Word document. Just copying text

from a website can bring it in. And the user can apply language formatting

for any language, whether it's installed or enabled on the system or not.



The only thing uninstalling or disabling a language will do is to make sure

Word won't try to run spell check on it. Period.



For more background on how Word handles language formatting, you'll find an

article on the Tips page on my website. If you follow those directions you

should be able to prevent US English from showing up by default in new

documents created from "clean" templates. But there's no way to guarantee

that it would be brought in from another source (copy/paste).



Cindy Meister

INTER-Solutions, Switzerland

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)

http://www.word.mvps.org



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For Australian, both "realize" and "realise" are in the dictionary.  So you

may very well have the spell checker set to Australian and not realize it.



Both forms are acceptable in Australian.  You could deal with this by

putting "realize" in your exclude dictionary.



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"Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:2B3A6DB9-0763-40F2-A055-C148A560FDF2@microsoft.com...

>I am resigned to believe there is no way to remove English(US) from the

> Spellchecker in Word 2003 and was hoping someone could give me a link to a

> Microsoft article that states this to be true.

>

> I have been on the following site which states "You can't get rid of the

> English(US) spell-checker" http://msmvps.com/thinice/articles/39610.aspx

>

> We have users who would like the spellchecker to highlight words like

> "realize" as incorrect and suggest "realise".

>

> I have checked the following on Windows 2000 and XP :

> Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Office Tools\Microsoft

> Office

> 2003 Language Settings - Both default and enabled are set to English

> (Australia)

>

> Regional and Languages - All set to English (Australia), Keyboard US

>

> In Word - Tools, Language, Set Language - both English (Australia) and

> English (US) appear.

>

> To sum up, I just need a link to a document that states that the

> Spellchecker in Word 2003 has English (US) installed and cannot be

> removed.

>

> Unless someone knows of a way.....via a reghack or deleting certain files

> ?

>

> Cheers

Doug



Is there any site, either Microsoft or other, that states that Australian

spellcheck does accept "ize" ?  Or that when clicking Tools, Language, Set

Language - both Aus and US are listed and there is no way to only have Aus

displayed ?



Cheers



"Doug Potter [MSFT]" wrote:



> For Australian, both "realize" and "realise" are in the dictionary.  So you

> may very well have the spell checker set to Australian and not realize it.

>

> Both forms are acceptable in Australian.  You could deal with this by

> putting "realize" in your exclude dictionary.

>

> --

> Doug

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> "Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>

As Doug Potter, who works for Microsoft, suggested, the way to achieve this

is to put the words ending in "ize" into the exclude dictionary so that

spelling will not be accepted.



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"Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Doug

>

> Is there any site, either Microsoft or other, that states that Australian

> spellcheck does accept "ize" ?  Or that when clicking Tools, Language, Set

> Language - both Aus and US are listed and there is no way to only have Aus

> displayed ?

>

> Cheers

>

> "Doug Potter [MSFT]" wrote:

> 

Doug



I have done this and it works well enough.  I would prefer to have some

backing from a documented source to provide to my users that they cannot

remove "ize" and their only alternative is to create an exclude dictionary.



I appreciate the "work around" and am happy to advise them but want

something documented before going down this path as I can already hear cries

of "Why should we have to do this ?" and "Do you know how long it willt ake

to type every combination of "ize" (eg realize, realized) and what about

other words like "favour" and "colour" ?



95% of my users aren't bothered either way but the 5% that are, have the

greatest weight !



Cheers



"Doug Robbins" wrote:



> As Doug Potter, who works for Microsoft, suggested, the way to achieve this

> is to put the words ending in "ize" into the exclude dictionary so that

> spelling will not be accepted.

>

> --

> Hope this helps.

>

> Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my

> services on a paid consulting basis.

>

> Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> "Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>

>

>

Select and copy the following, then in Word, select New from the File menu

and press Ctrl+v



"Doug Potter [MSFT]" <doug_potter@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> For Australian, both "realize" and "realise" are in the dictionary. So you



> may very well have the spell checker set to Australian and not realize it.



>



> Both forms are acceptable in Australian. You could deal with this by



> putting "realize" in your exclude dictionary.



>



> --



> Doug



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"Craig" <Craig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Doug

>

> I have done this and it works well enough.  I would prefer to have some

> backing from a documented source to provide to my users that they cannot

> remove "ize" and their only alternative is to create an exclude

> dictionary.

>

> I appreciate the "work around" and am happy to advise them but want

> something documented before going down this path as I can already hear

> cries

> of "Why should we have to do this ?" and "Do you know how long it willt

> ake

> to type every combination of "ize" (eg realize, realized) and what about

> other words like "favour" and "colour" ?

>

> 95% of my users aren't bothered either way but the 5% that are, have the

> greatest weight !

>

> Cheers

>

> "Doug Robbins" wrote:

> 

Sorry Doug, Not sure what I am meant to copy and what do when pasting into a

new Word doc ?  It is early in the morning so I may not be quite with it !



Cheers



"Doug Robbins" wrote:



> Select and copy the following, then in Word, select New from the File menu

> and press Ctrl+v

>

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> Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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The message from Doug Potter of Microsoft.  That may give you the

documentation that the blockheads require.  They probably should be given

more work to do so that they don't have time to worry about such issues <g>



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> Sorry Doug, Not sure what I am meant to copy and what do when pasting into

> a

> new Word doc ?  It is early in the morning so I may not be quite with it !

>

> Cheers

>

> "Doug Robbins" wrote:

> 

I will speak to our lexicographer about our references - but for UK English,

various sources list both forms as acceptable.



I haven't responded sooner because I've been on vacation in Canada, where

they speak another funny English .



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> The message from Doug Potter of Microsoft.  That may give you the

> documentation that the blockheads require.  They probably should be given

> more work to do so that they don't have time to worry about such issues

> <g>

>

> --

> Hope this helps.

>

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> Doug Robbins - Word MVP

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