Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 along with all other Microsoft Office suites, and individual products will be available in late January, and will cost around. How To Change Default Dictonary in Mocrosoft Word to use UK English. After struggling with this issue for many years, I found the Holy Grail of getting rid of English U. S once and for all. Stage 1 First of all, in Windows XP, begin with going to the Control Panel Regional and Language Settings Languages Detail. Microsoft Office 2010 Proofing Tools Kit' title='Microsoft Office 2010 Proofing Tools Kit' />Microsoft Security Essentials helps guard your PC against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 10, replaced by the new app Paint 3D. Microsoft lists. Microsoft Word is set up for US English out of the box. Set the language to UK English in order to get the UK English dictionary by default when you spellcheck. Here you need to select from the drop down menu, a default input language. This needs to be EN English United Kingdom US. If you dont have this option in the drop down menu, then proceed to the Installed Services option directly below. You should see a box with some options and an Add and Remove button to the side. Select Add and choose English UK as your default input language in the menu that shows up next,BUT specify US for the keyboard layout unless you KNOW your keyboard is a different layout. If you notice your keyboard acting strangely after this change, you will need to set it to the right layout here. After clicking OK,you should see the new Installed Service profile in the box to the left. EN English United Kingdom. Keyboard layout USIf you want, you can delete the other services, I did, because I never wanted the default to be USever Then, go back to the first part, and from the drop down menu, choose your new installed service, which should be EN English UK US, the US here is the keyboard layout. Once this is done, click ok to confirm the changes and exit the Control Panel. Next open up Search. Stage 2 Click search files and folders, and from the options below, tick advanced and select search system files search sub folders search hidden files and folders. Then search for this document Normal. MS word template. Adobe Activation Server List 2015. When it shows up, you need only search in the directory where MS Office is installed, right click on the right file which should be around 3. It should open a blank document. Type any odd letter, and check the status bar. If it detects English UKyoure good, you can move to stage 4, directly. Stage 3 If the English US is the exasperating result, THEN, to to Tools Language Set Language. Choose English U. K as default and click ok to save changes to the TEMPLATE. Next, highlight and delete the letterword youd typed before. Try not to use backspace, use the delete key. Once youre sure the document is blank, save it and exit. Stage 4 God willing, when you launch MS Word again, it should default to English UK. If it does, say a prayer and damn Microsoft to the deepest corners of the most painful hell and send a few to support Open.