Yes John - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gregory To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:52 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: UK Spellchecker Andy, are you using Vista with Windows Mail? John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ANDY COLLINS Sent: 03 January 2012 17:18 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: UK Spellchecker Hi John - I'm not using Outlook, but Windows Mail. I looked at spelling options under tools\options, but the only language choices are English, French, Spanish and German. Nothing to denote UK or US English - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gregory To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:26 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: UK Spellchecker Hi Andy, As Outlook 2007 still has the menu styles rather than the ribbon, the process should be the same as for Outlook 2003, try: 1. Open the 'tools' menu, i.e. hold down the 'alt' key and press 't', release the keys and press 'o;; 2. In the 'options' dialog box shift + tab once to go to the tabs and then right arrow 3 times for the 'spelling' sheet tab; 3. Tab down until you get to 'language', which should tell you which language is default, this should be English (UK), if it is English (US) then just arrow up once to English (UK) and then tab to 'apply' and press enter; 4. Click on 'OK' which will close the options dialog and take you back to the in box. Close Outlook and then restart it. Hopefully this will change the language to English (UK). Cannot guarantee this will work as I don't have 2007 and 2010 is different as it uses ribbons, but from memory, 2007 is similar to 2003. You might want to check the default language settings in the options in MS Word as described to Sharon earlier to ensure that Word is using English (UK) as its default. John. 3. click on the ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ANDY COLLINS Sent: 03 January 2012 13:35 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: UK Spellchecker John - can I ask about spell checking in emails please. Using spell check in office 2007 gives me English UK spellings, but spell checking when writing emails tries to correct English spellings to US spellings. I did think both programmes used the same settings, but it would appear not. So, how do I correct this? Thanks - Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gregory To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:02 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: UK Spellchecker Sharon, If the language in MS Office 2007 is defaulting to US English then it is possible that the default language in Windows is US English as Office normally takes the default display language as its setting. Anyway, to answer your first question, to change the language setting in Office 2007: 1. Open Word as normal; 2. Hold down the Alt key and press t and then release these keys, then press o. The options dialog should open; 3. Scroll down the tabs until you get to 'language', then tab once and JAWS should announce the 'default language'. If this is UK English then fine, but if it is US English, then down or up arro until you get to UK English; 4. If there are no other options, i.e. UK English then you need to tab once to the 'add additional editing languages' where you should find UK English; 5. Once the UK English option is the 'default', then click 'OK' or 'Apply' as necessary. I don't know which operating system you are using, but if it is Windows 7, then check the following before completing the above steps to change the language option in Office: 1. Press the 'Windows' key and type 'region' in the search box and choose region and language from the list; 2. The dialog box that opens should focus on the formatting language option, on mine it is UK English, but it may be that yours says US English, if so, then arrow up the list to UK English and then click on 'Apply'; 3. Tab to the tabs and right arrow to the 'Locations' tab, tab once and the focus should be on the 'current location' which should be United Kingdom', if not, then choose United Kingdom and click 'Apply'; 4. Tab to the tabs and right arrow to 'Keyboards and languages' tab. Tab once and your focus will be on 'change keyboards ...' button. Press enter on this button; 5. The focus should be on the default input language which should be 'English (United Kingdom), if not, then again, choose it from the list and then press 'OK', then on the dialog box that appears tab to 'Apply' and press enter; 6. Press 'OK' on any other dialog boxes that appear until you are back to desktop, then reboot the system (it may be that Windows prompts you to do this anyway). Following the steps above and a reboot, check the Office 2007 default language settings as described at the top of this message and amend if necessary. Hope this helps, but if you have any problems just let me know. John. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sharon Bowell Sent: 03 January 2012 11:58 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] UK Spellchecker Hi, Could someone kindly tell me how to make my spellchecker in office 2007 default to the UK one, for some reason it is using the USA one. Many thanks. Sharon