| David Wake | Arrghhh |
   54,832 / 50,000 Joined: Sep 22, 2009
Location: Birmingham, England, UK. Posts:
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Nov 6, 2009 - 03 23 |
Just wasted an hour coping with stupid stupidity and screaming at the computer because stupid Microsoft have four different ways of changing the language in Word to English (UK), but a hidden auto-change it back to English (US). The web is full of other people who have spent man-hours coping with this crap, which adds up to man-lifetimes. Microsoft are effectively killing UK citizens. The Government should so something. People, please make sure you are backing up. |
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Nov 6, 2009 - 04 00
I've found that by far the simplest way to deal with this problem is to manually delete Microsoft's US English dictionary completely.
(also not using word for nano).
54,832 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 04 49
I so wanted to use yWriter, but can't install it on all the computers I use to write.
How do you delete the US dictionary? (Mind you I have a novel idea featuring an American, so maybe I just want to rename and move it.)
It is behaving now.
To vent my spleen, my main character has just spent 1,500 words or so solving a computer problem, which slots very nicely into upping the stakes, so a silver lining.
----------Cheers,
David.
44,434 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 07 17
Sadly I can't remember of the top of my head, how exactly I did it, sorry.
1,854 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 09 23
Here's a solution: use Open Office Writer!
Hooray for open-source :D