Microsoft Word 2016: Cannot spellcheck document using British English.
I'm in the USA with a 40-page Word document that will be submitted to a British Journal. I've set the default language to British English and then tried to run a spellcheck on the entire document. Word accepts both English AND British spellings. I've seen this problem with Word 2013 as well. Does anyone know some kind of workaround or trick to make this work properly, rather than manually going through the entire document?
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Ramin, your solution doesn't resolve the issue with an existing document that already contains both US and UK English. That is why it is necessary to select the text first, then select the proofing language that you want to apply to that text.
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Thank you both for your comments on this issue. Colleen, following your directions resolved the issue. Ironically, however, the user thought that it wasn't working properly because he was using the word "organization" as the keyword to check whether or not spellcheck had worked properly. After some head-scratching, he discovered that the UK accepts both "organization" and "organisation" as proper spellings.
Thank you again!!! Ksuchy
Thank you again!!! Ksuchy
You're welcome, Ksuchy. Since your problem is solved, will you close this question and award the points? Thank you.
In 2016 versions of Word and Outlook
1.Open a new document or email message.
2.On the Review tab, in the Language group, click Language.
3.Click Set Proofing Language.
4.In the Language dialog box, select the Detect language automatically check box.
5.Review the languages shown above the double line in the Mark selected text as list. Office can detect only those languages listed above the double line. If the languages that you use are not shown above the double line, you must enable the editing language (turn on the language-specific options) so that Office can automatically detect them.
Source:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-on-automatic-language-detection-194d309c-3e10-4bd5-a694-ba9bbdf4a28e