Expression Web 4 will only spellcheck in American English and not British English by SE001

We recently announced that we are discontinuing development of Expression Web and have released a free version of the product. Our detailed announcement is posted on the Expression Community home page, http://expression.microsoft.com.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re having issues with regional English spellcheck. We have not been able to replicate the issue. I would suggest that you uninstall Expression Web and download and install the more recent Expression Web (Free Version), http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00e6f791-6450-4894-9b3a-2f5b58617a38, to see if that helps resolve the issue. The free version includes all of the functionality included in Expression Web 4 SP2, as well as a few additional small bug fixes.

Thanks,
Lori Dirks

I am Having the same problem too (with WE4 SP2 running on Windows 7 Professional 32 bit OS).

I have the language set to English (UK) as described by Gregory Smith also set as English (UK) under Tools / Page Editor Options / General TAB but colour is still shown as a spelling mistake with the suggestion of color i.e. American English spelling.

Nope, not fixed at all. Broken with Australian English and other variants too. The number of new bugs in version 4 never ceases to amaze me, it is by far the most buggy release of Expression to date.

Why is this problem closed? It hasn't been solved. The language is already set to British English using the method Greg has described on all the pages, resulting in
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">
in the html. Yet, Expression Web incorrectly marks correctly spelled BRITISH English as incorrect, attempting to enforce American spelling.

This was not a problem in FrontPage that I've recently upgraded to Expression Web.

Something is clearly not working correctly here. Could Microsoft please deal with it instead of just closing the incident.

I have this exact problem. I even downloaded a language pack, but this didn't help.

Thanks Greg but the work around doesn't work. I don't know why the bug was closed, are you saying that Expression Web does not support English? Previous versions did.

I've done that too. It's set to English (United Kingdom) but as SE001 says it still spells check in American.

You're more than welcome to pop round and check.

Greg
thanks for the suggestion - but this still does not work!!!
i do exactly as you say, it already has 'English (United Kingdom)' pre-selected in the language popdown under the encoding, but still checks English words as American!
Stan

Dear SE001,

This is Gregory Smith, a tester on the Expression Web team here at Microsoft. Sorry you are having trouble with this feature. In order to change the language used by the spell checker for a document:

1. Right-click on the document and select Encoding ...

This brings up the Page Properties dialog with the Language tab displayed.

2. Select the language you want to spell check against by using the dropdown under Page Language

3. Click OK

Hope this helps! Thanks for using Expression Web!

~Greg