Spell Checking occasionally works with Pages 3.03 update

I have been experiencing problems with spell checking since the most recent iWork update. If I save an old document as a new file, spell checking for modifications doesn't work. If I create a document from scratch, spell checking works until I paste text from other sources. This is a very strange problem.
I have searched the support forums and have seen many solutions that seem to work for others, but most seem to relate to have multiple Spell Checkers installed or having corrupt preference files. That is not my situation. I would appreciate any insight on this issue.

I have found that my spelling is set to Swedish as default. If I use English in my document, have all styling in set to English spelling check, i still get pasted text to Swedish. I have to select the new text and use the styles or in the Inspector tell it to be spell checked in English. I guess it has to do with which language I use for the System.

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