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January 26

UK English in Word.

I'm in the UK and I'm using Microsoft Word. When I type a word like 'popularise' or 'specialise' it tries to tell me that the spelling is wrong and it suggests the American spelling of 'popularize' or 'specialize'. I've gone into settings and chosen the 'Language' option and then under 'Office Authoring Languages and Proofing' I've selected 'English (United Kingdom) preferred'... but it still keeps telling me that the US spelling is correct and my UK spelling is wrong. Am I missing something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.37.129 (talk) 13:53, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Select the text in your documetnt and look at the status bar, where it says: "Section 1 Page 1 of 1 ...". The fourth entry is the language. If it's "English (United States)", you need to click on it and select UK English in the dialog box. You can also change the language in the "Normal" style. When you modify a style, in the lower left corner of the Modify Style box select Format > Language. You might have to change the language of the Normal style in your Normal.dot template if you want every new document to start with UK English settings, altho you might also be able to change this in the Language tab under File > Options. 93.136.127.254 (talk) 14:41, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

The idea that the -ize suffix is an American spelling is a common misperception. See Oxford spelling. I work for a British publisher and we always use the -ize spellings.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 15:28, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

LibreOffice lets you use a wide variety of Hunspell dictionaries for assorted varieties of English, and as Hunspell dictionaries are open-source, you can customi[s/z]e them. You don't need to know how to program to do this. I do not know if you can use Hunspell with Microsoft Word, because Microsoft didn't give a very clear answer to that question.[1] I'm fairly sure you can also just add 'popularise' and 'specialise' to the dictionary, even in Word. HLHJ (talk) 03:26, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Copyright question

Hi! I found an unpublished book online. I can read it as a pdf or on a web page. I want to know if I can print it legally. The link is here. Thank you! Dswitz10734 (talk) 15:23, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Also asked at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Entertainment § Copyright question. Please do not crosspost.  --Lambiam 17:12, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Internet Archive Search Engine

Is there a search engine that looks through internet archives? That would be equivalent to giving the WayBackMachine a good search engine. Charles Juvon (talk) 16:07, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

What Internet archives are you thinking of, other than that maintained by the Internet Archive?  --Lambiam 17:14, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

@Lambiam: Thank you. The website link through Internet Archive you provided does accept keywords. The way I was accessing did not. Charles Juvon (talk) 17:27, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Information about length of power cables on a power supply

Is there any accessible information online about the length of cables that are the output from a PSU? I am putting together a ATX build in a mid-tower and I encountered a problem I've never ran into before. The CPU power cable was not long enough to reach the port. Jdphenix (talk) 18:23, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

I suppose you can look it up at the site of PSU's manufacturer. Ruslik_Zero 20:18, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

You may be able to get an extension cable that plugs between the supply cable and the motherboard. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:53, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

An option for sure. I recall molex extensions catching on fire. I was just hoping that someone may have put together a database of detailed information about PSUs that I didn't know about. Oh well. Appreciate the help! Jdphenix (talk) 22:52, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

@Jdphenix: I'm not aware of many reports of molex extensions catching fire. E.g. [2] is one of the few I found from a quick search and it's actually a splitter. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but would say it's not very likely and most likely it would have to be an extremely poorly made one for this to happen. You may be getting confused by reports of molex to SATA adapters, or SATA splitters (Y cables) or frankly anything SATA power related catching fire. These reports are common enough to be a concern. But if you look at these reports, it's clear that this nearly always happens at the SATA end. This analysis [3] (also the earlier [4]), the best I've seen (not that I looked very hard) looks into it and explains the most likely reason it generally happens namely a short developing somewhere on the SATA end. The design of the SATA power plug is unfortunately somewhat conducive to this if it's poorly made. (There are also some similar risks with PCI Express riser cables.) Molex isn't really. I'm not sure if the 24 and 8 and 4 pin ATX connectors are technically a type of molex but regardless, their design is also not really something which makes a short likely. Far more likely would be your mobo having problems because the voltage drop is outside specs (or borderline if it's a poorly made mobo) especially if the PSU was already borderline and the adapter is poorly made (too thin cables). Nil Einne (talk) 06:24, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Outlook Trashing the Inbox After 2 Weeks

I am using Outlook in Office 365. I discovered on 25 January that all of my incoming email before 11 January had moved to the Trash. I copied all of the email to an archive (and will go through it and decide what to trash). Then today, on 26 January, I see that my incoming email from 11 January is in the Trash. There seems to be an option or switch set that is trashing the mail after two weeks. Where is it set, and how do I unset it? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:31, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Robert McClenon It's outlook bug because I too faced same problem, thats why I downloaded all my email data and uploaded to file hosting sites. Rizosome (talk) 12:38, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, User:Rizosome - So it is a new Outlook bug? I didn't have the problem until 11 January 2021. It seems like a misfeature rather than a hemipteran (that's a true bug) because it sounds like something that someone would decide we ought to want. Robert McClenon (talk) 19:14, 27 January 2021 (UTC)