I Have An American Spellcheck.

[Jackdaw33]

I have set my keyboard to British English but it still throws up American spellings (Win 10). How can I correct this?

[Buenchico]

Where are you seeing US spellings? For example, if you encountered them on AB while using Firefox it would be Firefox's dictionary that needed changing, rather than to do with any version of Windows.

So is it in Word, Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or somewhere else?

[Jackdaw33]

Perhaps i didn't make myself clear. I am on Chrome. Whenever I type words like colour it is underlined as a mistake.

[Buenchico]

Then it's Chrome's dictionary that needs changing, not anything within Windows itself.

See here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/advice/10991507/How-do-you-change-Chrome-spell-checker-to-UK-English.html

[Buenchico]

PS:
I don't use Chrome but it's possible that you can also change languages the same way that you can in Firefox, where you simply right-click on a word underlined in red and go to 'Languages'. (I've no idea whether that works in Chrome or not but it might be worth taking a look).

[Jackdaw33]

Tried that, no joy. I can live with it but it is a tad annoying.

[hc4361]

Click on the 'burger' menu top right of Chrome, click Settings

Scroll down, click Advanced Settings - Language and Input - English (United Kingdom) then tick the box - use this language for spell checking

[Baldric]

Just had a look at W10, select 'settings', the in 'find a setting' enter 'spell check' and select, then you get a choice of 'edit language and keyboard options' you can then select 'English US' or 'English UK'
Good Luck.

[Jackdaw33]

Thanks hc. All sorted. Forgot to tick the box. Thanks also to Chico and baldric for their advice.

[Jackdaw33]

colour

[Jackdaw33]

didn't mean to send that, I was just testing that it worked.