Madison,


You can set the language for your computer in the main system settings. 
Where and how you do this has changed recently, so your best bet is to 
type "language" in the Windows search box. What you're trying to find 
used to be in the Control Panel near the time settings.


Generally speaking, there are three sets of language options though, 
depending on your version of Windows 10, they may not be grouped this 
way). One set of options is for text input (i.e., keyboard layout and 
dictation). Another is for the display language (i.e., the language of 
the menus and screen reader). The third (and the one you want) is for 
proofing (i.e., spell checking). This used to be in Language 
Preferences. I'm running 2004, and I haven't explored settings enough to 
feel comfortable telling you which option will do the trick.


I think that, in Word 2013, you can get to Language Proofing by going 
into the area where spell check and the thesaurus are. I think this is 
called the Review tab, but I'm not sure. Anyway, this tab has two 
language options. One of them includes an option called Preferences, and 
that is where you set the proofing language. You need to highlight the 
entire document (ctrl+a) before changing the proofing language to 
English Canadian.


I use Outlook, but I'm not very advanced with it. In theory, you should 
be able to get to the same Language Preference dialog from Outlook 
because they're both Office apps, but I don't know if that's true.


Sorry to not be very helpful.


Ciao



On 10/10/2020 11:03 AM, Madison Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm not sure if this is something that can just be fixed for Outlook, or if it
> has to be done for all Office programs. I don't even know if it can be fixed
> period, but I hope that it can. Anyway, I'm running Windows 10, Jaws 18 and
> Office/Outlook 2013. I have Outlook set to check spelling before sending a
> message and sometimes I'm told that the dictionary language is English (Canada)
> and other times it's in English (United States). When you tab to change or
> ignore the error you go past a combo box where you're supposed to be able to
> change the selected language using the arrow keys, but when I tried to do that
> (it was on English United States) it just took me back to the inbox. I tried to
> open the combo box, make my selection and then close it, but the change didn't
> stay. I looked in options, but didn't find anything. I don't want to change how
> Jaws speaks, I just want to change the dictionary language.   So I'm wondering,
> is there another way to change the dictionary language? Since I'm Canadian I'd
> like to have it be set to Canadian English. The main Office program that I use
> is Outlook so that's the main place where I'd like the dictionary language
> changed, but if I have to or can change it in Word then that would be nice too!!
> I hope that this makes sense, and that there's a easy/simple way to change this.
> Look forward to any help/suggestions that any of you can provide!!
> Thanks
>
> Madison
>
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