Being in the UK, I prefer British English to US English.

On my old Windows Xp machine running Office 2003 I uninstalled US English,
as well as selecting UK from the Xp language settings and selecting UK
English in Office. That seemed to do the trick, but it does not work on my
new machine.

Gripe No.1: Microsoft have ‘helpfully’ moved all the old commands so that it
isn’t easy for those of us who have been using their products for years and
multiple generations to find our way around.

Gripe No.2: No matter that I have told the OS that I am in the UK in the
‘Regional and Language Options’ from the Control Panel settings. No matter
that that I’ve gone into Microsoft Office Language Settings 2007 and removed
“English (United States)� from the Enabled editing languages. No matter that
in Word I have also removed “English (United States)� from the Enabled
editing languages. Every time I exit, that pesky US English returns.

Can anyone help or am I saddled with this unwanted ‘feature’?

You cannot at present . The Office 2007 language(proofing) tools are not released yet. It is projected towards the month of May

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"UK_Englishman" <UK_Englishman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3BDFEE15-5872-45BF-80AB-72C0B6B9B831@microsoft.com...
> Being in the UK, I prefer British English to US English.
>
> On my old Windows Xp machine running Office 2003 I uninstalled US English,
> as well as selecting UK from the Xp language settings and selecting UK
> English in Office. That seemed to do the trick, but it does not work on my
> new machine.
>
> Gripe No.1: Microsoft have ‘helpfully’ moved all the old commands so that it
> isn’t easy for those of us who have been using their products for years and
> multiple generations to find our way around.
>
> Gripe No.2: No matter that I have told the OS that I am in the UK in the
> ‘Regional and Language Options’ from the Control Panel settings. No matter
> that that I’ve gone into Microsoft Office Language Settings 2007 and removed
> “English (United States)� from the Enabled editing languages. No matter that
> in Word I have also removed “English (United States)� from the Enabled
> editing languages. Every time I exit, that pesky US English returns.
>
> Can anyone help or am I saddled with this unwanted ‘feature’?
>

There is only a single English language proofing tools set for Office that supports multiple variants and if text in Word is
formatted with U.S. English it doesn't automatically change to another variant.

You may find the information here helpful:
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

The keyboard shortcuts from prior Word versions should continue to work,for the most part in the new versions. For example in Word
Tools=>Language=>Set Language was Alt T, L, L
and that still works in Word 2007.

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<<"UK_Englishman" <UK_Englishman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3BDFEE15-5872-45BF-80AB-72C0B6B9B831@microsoft.com...
Being in the UK, I prefer British English to US English.

On my old Windows Xp machine running Office 2003 I uninstalled US English,
as well as selecting UK from the Xp language settings and selecting UK
English in Office. That seemed to do the trick, but it does not work on my
new machine.

Gripe No.1: Microsoft have 'helpfully' moved all the old commands so that it
isn't easy for those of us who have been using their products for years and
multiple generations to find our way around.

Gripe No.2: No matter that I have told the OS that I am in the UK in the
'Regional and Language Options' from the Control Panel settings. No matter
that that I've gone into Microsoft Office Language Settings 2007 and removed
"English (United States)" from the Enabled editing languages. No matter that
in Word I have also removed "English (United States)" from the Enabled
editing languages. Every time I exit, that pesky US English returns.

Can anyone help or am I saddled with this unwanted 'feature'? <<

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MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

I've got the same problem as UK_Englishman with Office 2007, but on XP.
I've attached screenshots of both my Office Language Settings and my
Windows Input Languages. Seems no matter what I do, after removing
English (U.S.) from the Office Language Settings window and closing it,
upon reopening English (U.S.) -always -has returned to the list.

Cheers,

David


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Has anything been update on this issue? My job is actually translating and
proofreading English in Finland, and it always has to be UK English, aka Real
English ;) Why, oh why does the McDonalds, Coke and Hollywood phenomenon
have to extend its tentacles to my workspace, when my entire mission is to
avoid it and stay British? (which, incidentally, all my clients so far have
wanted - perhaps they see it as the proper English?) It is REALLY
irritating, and does nothing to help the image of Americans as arrogant and
pushy. It's annoying enough on programs like iTunes, that lists English (US)
as an option but no others, but when you actually have to write and edit text
for a living it gets the blood boiling.

I have tried many times to remove US English as described in online help, it
always comes back. I went to keyboard settings in Windows and discovered
that US English was there too for some reason (on a PC bought in Finland,
running UK version of XP and Office 2007 - where did the Yank influence get
in there then?) so I removed that, installed UK and left Finland as default
as I have a Finnish keyboard, but to no avail. Once again, along comes Uncle
Sam's wrong English as default in PowerPoint, Word, and probably the others
as well though I don't use them much to check. Please Microsoft, sort it out
and stop irritating all the legions of people to whom English (other than US)
is the correct language! And yes, we do exist, the world doesn't end when
you get to New York, there is other stuff over the water :)

As Oscar Wilde said, "we have really everything in common with America
nowadays, except, of course, language."

Steve

"dwood" wrote:

>
> I've got the same problem as UK_Englishman with Office 2007, but on XP.
> I've attached screenshots of both my Office Language Settings and my
> Windows Input Languages. Seems no matter what I do, after removing
> English (U.S.) from the Office Language Settings window and closing it,
> upon reopening English (U.S.) -always -has returned to the list.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
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I have exactly the same problem.

I have removed all traces of US English from control panel, however I enter
Office 2007 language settings and there it is "US English".

So I remove it, close the office language settings, re-open them and its back.

I've rebooted and repeated the procedure, but yet it remains.

One other point, if I change the default language of my normal.dot Word
happliy uses UK English until I insert a table then bang uncle Sam is back in
town.

Please MS sort it out.

"UK_Englishman" wrote:

> Being in the UK, I prefer British English to US English.
>
> On my old Windows Xp machine running Office 2003 I uninstalled US English,
> as well as selecting UK from the Xp language settings and selecting UK
> English in Office. That seemed to do the trick, but it does not work on my
> new machine.
>
> Gripe No.1: Microsoft have ‘helpfully’ moved all the old commands so that it
> isn’t easy for those of us who have been using their products for years and
> multiple generations to find our way around.
>
> Gripe No.2: No matter that I have told the OS that I am in the UK in the
> ‘Regional and Language Options’ from the Control Panel settings. No matter
> that that I’ve gone into Microsoft Office Language Settings 2007 and removed
> “English (United States)� from the Enabled editing languages. No matter that
> in Word I have also removed “English (United States)� from the Enabled
> editing languages. Every time I exit, that pesky US English returns.
>
> Can anyone help or am I saddled with this unwanted ‘feature’?
>

What is your keyboard language set to?

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reading.

After furious head scratching, Steve Wilkinson asked:

| I have exactly the same problem.
|
| I have removed all traces of US English from control panel, however I
| enter Office 2007 language settings and there it is "US English".
|
| So I remove it, close the office language settings, re-open them and
| its back.
|
| I've rebooted and repeated the procedure, but yet it remains.
|
| One other point, if I change the default language of my normal.dot
| Word happliy uses UK English until I insert a table then bang uncle
| Sam is back in town.
|
| Please MS sort it out.
|
| "UK_Englishman" wrote:
|
|| Being in the UK, I prefer British English to US English.
||
|| On my old Windows Xp machine running Office 2003 I uninstalled US
|| English,
|| as well as selecting UK from the Xp language settings and selecting
|| UK
|| English in Office. That seemed to do the trick, but it does not
|| work on my
|| new machine.
||
|| Gripe No.1: Microsoft have ‘helpfully’ moved all the old
|| commands so that it isn’t easy for those of us who have been using
|| their products for years and multiple generations to find our way
|| around.
||
|| Gripe No.2: No matter that I have told the OS that I am in the UK in
|| the ‘Regional and Language Options’ from the Control Panel
|| settings. No matter that that I’ve gone into Microsoft Office
|| Language Settings 2007 and removed “English (United States)�
|| from the Enabled editing languages. No matter that in Word I have
|| also removed “English (United States)� from the Enabled editing
|| languages. Every time I exit, that pesky US English returns.
||
|| Can anyone help or am I saddled with this unwanted ‘feature’?

Milly,

My regional settings are as follows:

Format: English UK
Location: United Kingdom
Keyboard Language: English UK
Display Language: English (Type: MUI)

I'm using Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 Professional.

Thanks

Steve

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> What is your keyboard language set to?
>
> --�
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> reading.
>
> After furious head scratching, Steve Wilkinson asked:
>
> | I have exactly the same problem.
> |
> | I have removed all traces of US English from control panel, however I
> | enter Office 2007 language settings and there it is "US English".
> |
> | So I remove it, close the office language settings, re-open them and
> | its back.
> |
> | I've rebooted and repeated the procedure, but yet it remains.
> |
> | One other point, if I change the default language of my normal.dot
> | Word happliy uses UK English until I insert a table then bang uncle
> | Sam is back in town.
> |
> | Please MS sort it out.
> |
> | "UK_Englishman" wrote:
> |
> || Being in the UK, I prefer British English to US English.
> ||
> || On my old Windows Xp machine running Office 2003 I uninstalled US
> || English,
> || as well as selecting UK from the Xp language settings and selecting
> || UK
> || English in Office. That seemed to do the trick, but it does not
> || work on my
> || new machine.
> ||
> || Gripe No.1: Microsoft have ‘helpfully’ moved all the old
> || commands so that it isn’t easy for those of us who have been using
> || their products for years and multiple generations to find our way
> || around.
> ||
> || Gripe No.2: No matter that I have told the OS that I am in the UK in
> || the ‘Regional and Language Options’ from the Control Panel
> || settings. No matter that that I’ve gone into Microsoft Office
> || Language Settings 2007 and removed “English (United States)�
> || from the Enabled editing languages. No matter that in Word I have
> || also removed “English (United States)� from the Enabled editing
> || languages. Every time I exit, that pesky US English returns.
> ||
> || Can anyone help or am I saddled with this unwanted ‘feature’?
>