Hi Eleanor, Select all of the text in your document with CONTROL + A Go to the Tools menu and select spell check Change the language to English UK Tab to the Default button Select this and when prompted if you want all new files based on the Normal template to use English UK, select OK. This should solve the problem. Brian Cairnie Cragside AccessABILITY Limited Telephone: 0844 500 7091 Fax: 0844 500 7098 DotLine: 0844 500 7099 Skype: cragside_accessabilty Email: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx Web: www.cragside.com P O Box 469, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 9JJ (Not for deliveries please) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email and files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named recipient, or have received this in error, please notify Cragside AccessABILITY Limited immediately by telephone and delete this email: do not disclose the contents to any other person or copy or store the contents. Whilst every reasonable precaution has been taken, Cragside AccessABILITY Limited cannot accept liability for any damage which you sustain as a result of software viruses that may be contained in or attached to this email. THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT... THINK GREEN -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 13 September 2011 22:40 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Spell check in Word 2003 I am doing a spell- check in Word 2003, it is set to English US. I have changed this via Tools, Language and changed it to English UK. Then I have set the default to English UK. However, once I start the spell-check having done this it is back at English Us. How can I change this please? Thank you. Eleanor ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq