The spellcheck provided by microsoft is bloody useless, but I suppose it's better than nothing. But even when it's turned over to 'English Spelling' it doesn't know how to spell in English. I can't stand having things like 'theater' and 'labor' popping up all over the place. That man Webster has a lot to answer for.
I suppose it's 'British Spelling' but the Scots can do as they like.
John, I just don't understand this comment. The spellcheck in my Word programme, dating from 2002, offers 15 different world varieties of English as well as English (UK) and English (US), though not Scots, I notice. You just set your default langauge to English(UK) and it accepts 'theatre' and so on.
The only drawback I've come across is that if you read a downloaded American text it sometimes trips the default language back to English (US) and you have to reset English (UK) via Tools. Maybe that's what's been happening to you?
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