Do you reside in a country that is outside of the US? Do you keep using the English - US spell checker in Microsoft Word, but can't figure out how to change it and make something else the default?

This happened to one of my colleagues. He was going crazy tryiing to figure out how to change the dictionary to English - Canadian and make it the default as well, so that he wouldn't have to change it each time he opened up a Microsoft Word file.


Here are the 4 simple steps on doing this:

1. Open Microsoft Word (ok, this was an obvious one).
2. Make sure that you have the "Menus" tab listed if you are using Microsoft Word 2007. If you are using the 2003 version, skip this step.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Then click Tools, Language, Set Language.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Click on the particular Language that you want your spelling/grammar checker to use, then click on Default and click Yes.

That's it! You now have your preferred language set as your default. You can also double click as many languages as you wish if you need to add any more of them.

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