Change Multiple Documents from US to UK language

Hi everyone,

I am currently using Microsoft Word 2010 and any new documents I create always use the UK language setting, which is great.

However I have been given a list of 72 word documents from someone and each one I open checks for US spelling and grammar so words like colour are spelt color which is no good for me to use as I am Primary school teacher. So rather than go into each one and manually change it to use UK language, is there a way of changing them all together?

Thanks

Thankyou sooo much for this suggestion, however it hasn't resolved the problem.

It's more than likely something I'm going to have to learn to deal with

Hey Golden,

Thanks for your reply, however whenever I click the image it is saying the item may have been removed

i don't know if this will work either, but it's worth a try...

on the review tab >> language >> set proofing language >> make sure uk is default, and untick 'detect language automatically'

is it possible to attach one of these word documents, so we could have a play?

Yeah course it is.

i think you'll need to change the proofing language as above - then save the document with the new UK default.

otherwise when you open it again, 'colour' will be marked as misspelt again. ('misspelt' just looks so wrong )

i'm wondering how to automate this for all 72 documents...any ideas anyone?