I don't know about the U.S. version of Word 98, but the International English version manufactured in Singapore often has a "sticky" default dictionary. You can choose U.S. English as the default for the present document and for general usage, but as soon as you close the prefereces dialogue box, the setting automatically switches immediately back to UK English, and there is no way to prevent that. One of my British friends in Tokyo seems to have the opposite problem, and maybe his Word 98 is the U.S. version. Does anyone know whether this has been fixed in 2001?
Also, lists in the thesaurus and other similar windows are always truncated, since Microsoft seems to have forgotten to put scroll bars into the programming of those windows, so you always see an incomplete list of synonyms. Has this been a problem with the U.S. version of 98, and is it fixed in 2001?
Ken Wedin
Tokyo, Japan
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