Order of the White Star - awarded to Ms Trouble.

Merry Christmas.

Here's my gift to any users of Microsoft Office 2000 who have suffered, as we have, due to the relentless reversion to US English. If you have this program you may (like me) have spent many hours trying to solve this. So many dead ends. So many chirpy little assurances. So many disturbing rants to google.

Our suffering began 18 months ago when Trouble started work and first used the program. From mild irritation to deep, paranoid despair about evil tentacles of US cultural imperialism; there were times when we took it all a little too personally.

This is what finally worked for us.

1. Go to the Start Menu
2. Go to Settings
3. Go to Control Panel
4. Go to Regional Options
5. Go to Input Locales
6. Set as default Australian English.


Trouble : Just to be on the safe side, I (Trouble) deleted the US English option.
At that point there was a message about not being able to do that until the program restarted, but once it did restart all was very well indeed. Spell check is once again ON. I'm not sure if deleting the option of US English is a necessary step but I'm not taking any chances.