I have many issues with EW8 but now they have just disappeared from the forum. So how do I know when they have been rectified. One issue which is important to me is the spell checking which doesn't allow any dictionary unless it is American so I have to resort back to EW7 as the spell checker works great. Here's a summary of the issues from13th May 2026, none have been fixed in EW8.0.49

1. Can't get English British dictionary to work, when you select it, it immediately changes it back to English (American). It works perfectly in 7.4.1.9, this wouldn't be needed if you had an ESV anglicised bible.

2. In the Schedule column the icons should have in the top right hand corner, a symbol denoting whether they are a song, scripture, image, video or presentation as in 7 but they are missing in 8.

3. When adding a background image to a song or whatever, there is no 'Apply to Theme' button so you have to apply to each individual verse.

4. If you already have a background set, but want to change it, it always starts with video. Other software would display what was already selected to save having to go through many menus to get back to where you are. This also applies to saving, the program knows the name of the schedule you want to save so why is the field blank? All this makes the software hard going because you have to repeat things over so many times. If the programmers thought this through to make the software more user friendly.