Help needed with Word on Vista, please

[WendyWeber]

It's refusing to add some words to the dictionary - a lot of what I do involves place names and it's v useful to have them added for future fat-fingered episodes.

Yesterday it would happily add anything - today it's being very selective and will hardly add anything (ie in the drop-down box of suggestions etc, the "add to dictionary" link isn't working)

The weirdest thing is that I have one word (well, an abbreviation) in 2 places - one does get the "add" link and one doesn't

hopeful bump

desperate bump

Oh honey I just wanted to say I know sweet FA about Vista in case you think you are being ignored XXX

Oh thank you for answering, marina - I was feeling small and invisible

You should just not be so cutting edge at home. You should stick to the Olde-Tyme Windows like we have
Anyway, can't your Old Man help on this ?

Incidentally I have sort of half solved it (but can't fix it) - some words are in US English and some in UK - how that happened I have no idea but it won't let me change the default dict to UK throughout...

Or you could ask a sensible person like LL

I can't even find Tools, Little

marina, I wanted to keep XP when we got this new PC but was over-ruled by man in shop. And DH doesn't do Word (in fact he said

which made me LOL but hasn't helped...)

As soon as I typed that sentence I wondered if, like most IT professionals I know, Word was considered strictly for the girls

Yes, it is 2007, Little, but I don't seem to have Word Options button (or an Office button come to that - I get Office from Start and then Word and that opens a document)

I don't liiiiiiike it.....

what petitbunny said

I can find Custom Dictionaries - the process goes:

Click Review (across the top it goes home, insert, page layout, references, mailings, review and view - each one changes the bits you can access) review includes spelling & grammar
Click spelling & grammar - it says English (United States) across the top
click options and custom dictionaries appears
click that and it says

Dictionary List
English (United Kingdom)
CUSTOM.DIC (default)

but it just keeps being in US English in the document.

Ohhhhh, Little, thank you for that - I have found the Word Options button now - but it says I am in UK English (and I thought I was but some of it isn't........waaaaah)

Could you just pop up here and fix it for me please?

(Going by that wonderful helpful page, it's not just me then? Is this the sort of thing that people whinged about when Vista started?)

oooh, oooh, oooh - skips round room clapping hands - that didn't make any diff (it was already unchecked) but the box said at the top "mark selected text as -" whichever language so I just highlighted the lot and clicked UK English and IT'S CHANGED IT!!!!!!

Little, will you marry me please?

Normally I have the bottom of the document off the bottom of the screen, because I'm copy-and-pasting off something else which I want to see at the same time, so I didn't even know that language box was there - do you think it might be wise for me to do a Word training session?

Message withdrawn

mellowma, you lost me at "open with" - I can't see that anywhere on a blank document.

I'm just rubbish, me