Language keeps changing

[Jim S]

When I scan in a document with MS Office Document Scanning (2007) and
save text to Word in my normally UK set machine, the language defaults to
US English. The spelling errors are highlighted, but add-to- dictionary
is greyed out.
I can change the language to UK English and then add to dictionary, but
it reverts when I get to the next error. Setting UK as default and
unchecking the Auto language box does not help.
Any ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The custom dictionary should be set to "All languages."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Graham Mayor]

MODI will always output text formatted as US English. It is only a
rudimentary OCR application. If you want to import UK English you will need
OCR software capable of making the difference.

You can tackle this in one of three ways
1. Accept the fact that it is US English and set your custom dictionary
language to All Languages as suggested by Suzanne
2. Accept the fact that it is US English and add a US English custom
dictionary to store US spellings from US formatted text.
3. Select all the text you have imported (CTRL+A) and format all as English
UK. (Add the following macro to a button on the QAT for a one click change
of language.)

Sub SetUKLanguage()
ActiveDocument.Range.LanguageID = wdEnglishUK
End Sub
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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[Jim S]

MODI will always output text formatted as US English. It is only a
rudimentary OCR application. If you want to import UK English you will need
OCR software capable of making the difference.

You can tackle this in one of three ways
1. Accept the fact that it is US English and set your custom dictionary
language to All Languages as suggested by Suzanne

That does not help

2. Accept the fact that it is US English and add a US English custom
dictionary to store US spellings from US formatted text. Mm

3. Select all the text you have imported (CTRL+A) and format all as English
UK. (Add the following macro to a button on the QAT for a one click change
of language.)

That seems to work if I remember what to do in future sessions ?

Sub SetUKLanguage()
ActiveDocument.Range.LanguageID = wdEnglishUK
End Sub
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

Thanks

 

[mike.smith]

What also might help is to highlight the whole document and then set the language.

The thing with MS Word is that it allows you to have a multilingual document while you can spellcheck according to the text language without having to change the language for the whole document.

Mike
www.mswordhelp.com