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RE: FN-FORUM: Americanising textMOre info

date posted 8th August 2003 15:50

typical; put work first!

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Lists
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 11:24
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Americanising textMOre info



Sorry, I was on a client site in Leeds all day.

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Kathy
http://www.vendetta.co.uk
+44(0)7005 982 261
DNRC Minister for Useful but Irritating Information and Trivia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Theresa HARE" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Americanising textMOre info


>
> Thanks Kathy - wish you had answered my email yesterday lol - of course I
> kept trying to reset the language in options and in spell checker. Didn't
> occur to me to change it in the style sheet - ah well I'll know for next
> time.
>
> Funny thing is, now I've run it - it didn't pick anything up anyway LOL
>
> Theresa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Lists
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 12:31
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Americanising textMOre info
>
>
>
> You probably just need to modify your normal style to use US as the
language
> (either for that document or make a template and base US docs on the new
> template). That's what I do.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Kathy
> http://www.vendetta.co.uk
> +44(0)7005 982 261
> DNRC Minister for Useful but Irritating Information and Trivia
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Theresa HARE" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:22 PM
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Americanising textMOre info
>
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > first thanks to all who tried to help - unfortunately I was on a 45 min
> > timescale - so not all suggestions were practical. However, I managed to
> get
> > something sent off with a combination of known spelling issues and
> > find/replace along with continually telling Word to use the Us
> dictionary -
> > bastard kept reverting. I finally sent off a 'draft' version. (PS quark
> std
> > dictionary ain't very helpful)
> >
> > Then the fun began, I decided to try changing the language settings of
my
> 98
> > machine with the view of improving what I had done. And BOLLOCKS! It has
> > took me the past 6 hours to get back into the machine. SOO please be
> warned
> > if you are not fully aware of what can happen if you try to change
> regional
> > settings - it can trully fuck up your day, so back up all important
files
> to
> > your spare machine just like I did - not!
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Theresa
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Deborah
> > Causton
> > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 11:47
> > To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Americanising text
> >
> >
> >
> > What platform/version are you using? Have you tried temporarily
> > resetting your language settings and then running word.
> >
> > Regards
> > Deborah
> >
> >
> >
> > :::::: A t o m i c P h u s e ::::::
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
> > Theresa HARE
> > Sent: 07 August 2003 10:31
> > To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: FN-FORUM: Americanising text
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need to 'americanise' a manual I have written, I thought I'd extract
> > the
> > text from Quark and run the US dictionary in Word on it. But although I
> > keep
> > selecting the US english - it keeps reverting to UK english. Any ideas?
> > Or
> > alternate ways of doing it?
> >
> > Theresa
> >
> >
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