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Originally Posted by HarryT
just interested to know your motivation for wanting to do this  . |
When I run a spell check on the books, I always use the UK dictionary. As a result, American spellings are always caught. I have no desire to start using an American dictionary and since for some reason, 'replace all' in the spell check never does replace all occurrences.
To speed up my spell check, I thought it would be simpler to first run a macro to change all of the American spellings. This would then allow me to correct genuine spelling errors and save me a lot of time preparing my books.
The alternative solution was to add the American spellings to my dictionary, but I would prefer to read the UK spelling.
This is a PERSONAL PREFERENCE.
Spelling also depends on where a book was published. I have 2 versions of my favourite book - one published in America, one published in the UK (having lost my original, my wife found a copy but could only get it in the US - a few yers later I found the original copy). In this, spellings differ based on the country rather than the (BRITISH) author's original language!