Sometimes Windows has the wrong region setting, most commonly with the US defaults applied when you don’t live there.
The Office installation picks up your region setting from Windows to choose the default language in Word. Usually the appropriate one for you is chosen automatically during setup. You’ll repeat some of the installation steps including Customize where you can find and select additional languages or features available in that language. To get the languages supplied with your version of Office, go to Control Panel | Programs and Features (or similar in earlier versions of Windows), choose Microsoft Office and then change settings. Other languages that are included with the ‘English’ version of Office are French and Spanish – with a similarly large number of variations including French for France and Canadian Quebecois. and less well known ones like spelled/spelt. Of course, all language variants have a lot of common spellings but differences like the common ones color/colour etc. You’d expect English (US) and English (UK) but there’s many others available: ‘Dictionaries’ plural because there’s many variants supplied.
Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.Ī quick look at your dictionary options in WordĮven if you, like me, only speak one language there are still some powerful language and dictionary options in Word to keep in mind.Īll copies of Microsoft Office (recent versions anyway) come with English dictionaries.
