Hello Rach,
If you select the appropriate language version, you'll see that your
spell-checker accepts colour, realise, realisation, realising, etc. You are
probably in US English mode, which explains your "problem", but you can
switch to New Zealand English as follows:
Tools --> Language --> Set Language (select English (New Zealand)).
This should solve your problem.
Best wishes,
Thierry
Thierry Fontenelle
Speech & Natural Language
[MSFT]
"NZ Rach" wrote:
> Kia Ora
> Is it possible to download a dictionary for Word that will admit I've spelt
> 'colour' and 'realise' correctly? The red jaggedy lines underneath words that
> I KNOW are spelled correctly are really starting to bug me. I realise that
> New Zealand is small but there are still 4 million people living here and a
> good number of them have Microsoft Word!
> For starters, I've read the other posts: I'm aware of the exclude list and I
> know you can add stuff to the dictionary.
> But there MUST be something easier than:
> realise realises realised realising realisation Realise Realises Realised
> Realising Realisation
> There are simply too many variations of each word to add all of the NZ
> spellings and exclude all of the US ones.
> This is cultural imperialism - all the way.
> If there's something I can download to fix it, then please SOMEBODY put me
> out of my misery.
> Cheers
> Rach
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