This might be a little ho hum for some people. But let me give you a practical use for it. I copy and paste a lot of text.
In Windows and Word’s efforts to be helpful, when you paste – all the formatting comes with it – of course that is generally different to your formatting so it messes up your document…
Solution?
A lot of MS Word documents you will receive have their spelling defaults set to US English. With Word 2013 (and possibly even Word 2010) and beyond you can quickly change this default to Australian English.
If you see words like “magnetise” and “categorise” showing with the wiggly red line indicating that Word thinks they are misspelt…