Daniel Kasak wrote:
After I select a dictionary in the combo box ( which now *correctly*
*displays* the dictionary I just selected ), I click the
'close' button to close the 'Writing Aids' dialog.
Now, with the Options dialog still open, I click the 'edit' button again to
re-enter the 'Writing Aids' dialog ( ie where I just set the dictionary
in the previous step ), and the language has been reset to English
(USA).
Yes, that happens on my Windows XP system also. But it has no bearing on
which dictionary is actually being used. The language in the combo box
seems to do nothing but indicate whether there is an active spell
checker, hyphenation dictionary, and thesaurus for the language in
question and allow me to turn any of these on or off. It does not
indicate some kind of default language. When one of these modules is
missing for a particular language, then it doesn't show.
I can set up a single line/paragraph in a document with the words
"harbor harbour customize customise maison".
If I set that text to "English (UK)", then "harbor" and "maison" are
marked as incorrect. Right clicking on "harbor" gives an extra option to
mark either the paragraph or word as "English (USA)". No such extra
option appears with "maison".
If I set that text to "English (USA)", then "harbour" "customise" and
"maison" are marked as incorrect. Right clicking on "harbour" gives an
extra option to mark either the paragraph or word as "English (Canada)".
No such extra option appears with "customise" or "maison".
If I set that text to "English (Canada)", then "harbor" "customise" and
"maison" are marked as incorrect. Right clicking on "harbor" gives an
extra option to mark either the paragraph or word as "English (USA)".
No such extra option appears with "customise" or "maison".
If I set that text to "French (Canada)", then all except "maison" are
marked as incorrect. Right clicking on "harbor" gives me the extra
options for "English (USA). Right clicking on either "harbour" or
"customize" gives me the extra options for "English (Canada)". Right
clicking on "customise" gives no extra option.
Accessing a thesaurus for any correctly spelled word provides the proper
thesaurus.
While I don't fathom the logic by which the spell checker chooses which
other language it thinks an incorrect spelling belongs two, and why it
sometimes misses such spellings in other dictionaries altogether, it is
obvious enough that spell checking is working, and that spellings marked
as correct or incorrect according to my language specification for the
text are marked appropriately.
That "English (USA)" always appears first in the "Writing Aids" dialog
box no more indicates that it has been set to some sort of default than
does the fact that in Tools -> Options... -> Load/Save -> General the
words "Text Document" always appear in the "Document type" box, as
though somehow "Text Document" was being reset to some kind of default
after choosing "Master Document".
If indeed you cannot use the dictionaries you have installed, the
listing of "English (USA)" at the top of the list in "Writing Aids" is
probably a red herring and has nothing to do with your problems.
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