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Stop autocorrect in Word 2007 from correcting -ise to -ize

The question has been asked before, but no practical solution is provided in that thread. Please explain how to configure autocorrect in Word 2007 sot that it stops replacing -ise and its variants with -ize and its variants. While in the main text Word will flag -ize (etc.) when the language has been set to UK English and -ise (etc.) when it's been set to US English, in the Comments it just goes ahead and corrects these spellings automatically.

I'm only after a practical solution to this issue - which spelling is standard in which country is irrelevant for my purposes: I'm an editor, I use the Comments feature extensively and I just need to control what Word does to a text.

Thank you.
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Word does not AutoCorrect spelling unless:

  1. There is a specific AutoCorrect entry for the change, in which case you can open the AutoCorrect Options dialog, find the entry, and delete it, or
  2. You have the box for "Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker" checked in AutoCorrect Options, in which case you should clear this box.
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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 954 Applies to: