If you're an Australian doing a tender for a potential customer with offices in Maribyrnong and Woolloomooloo and Parramatta and Toowoomba, you need to get these names correct.īut if your assistant grew up in Sydney, he might not know how to spell Maribyrnong. Be patient! It's no harder to set up than, let's say, landing an aeroplane.) Why bother setting up Word's language correctly? Just make sure you set all four settings the way you want them. In that case, set the input language (that is, the keyboard language) to Italian, but tell Windows to use Australian date, time and currency settings. Let's say you have an Italian language version of Windows but you live in Australia. (These instructions will even work if you need a combination of languages. Use the same approach to choose English English or Canadian English or Jamaican English or any other flavour of English. I'm in Australia, so this page is about setting up Word for Australian English. It's important to set the language of text in a Word document because the language affects the spell checker. It's a fair guess that 95% of the world's population 1 does not want a new document in Word to start out in US English. Word is obsessed with US English, but it can be made to work in other languages and other forms of English. in the Microsoft Office Language Settings Tool.in the Windows Control panel, as the Default Input Language.in the Windows Control panel, in the Regional Options dialog.
You must set your preferred language in four places: How to tell Word to use a non-US form of English
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