atw: Getting rid of US English in MS Word

After a lot of research, here is at least a workaround for this stupid problem:

I checked that my regional setting in the Control Panel was for Australia.

I used the Office 2003 Language Settings application, set English Australia as 
the default and removed US English as a possible language.

I directly edited my normal.dot and set all styles to English Australia.  I set 
the language in normal.dot to English Australia, turned off Automatic language 
detection, clicked the Default button, said Yes and saved normal.dot.

Even after all this, when I start a new document it says US English.

My workaround for each time you start a new document: Do all of the above for 
your language, then start the new doc, type one character, ctrl+a (select all), 
ctrl+space (remove all character formats), ctrl+q (remove all paragraph 
formats), then release your selection.  Now the doc is in the right language, 
as long as you never delete everything.  If you delete everything it reverts to 
US English. 

If you create a doc template with existing text, use the above method, but make 
sure the last paragraph of the doc template is not blank.  The last paragraph 
in a doc template  will always revert to US English if it is blank.

Please let me know if you have a better solution, besides switching to Open 
Office.

Cheers

David


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