Deleting languages from the Set Language list

[Magee]

Is there a way to delete the languages I never use from the Set Language list
in Word 2003? I use only English (US), English (Canada) and English (UK) with
US as default, but I have to scroll through what seems hundreds of languages
to find Canada and UK near the bottom (above Spanish. Go figure). I tried
setting the language options according to this article
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA012079901033.aspx?pid=CL100636481033),
choosing only those 3 languages from the list, but I still have the huge list
of every language imaginable after shutting down Word and restarting the
program. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be doing something else? It's
driving me batty!

 

[Tony Jollans]

The article you reference refers to the Language Settings, which you should
not need to be regularly accessing. Once languages are in the right hand
list of enabled languages they should stay there and Word automatically adds
languages there if you use them through the normal Word UI, so the only need
you might normally have to visit that dialogue is to remove languages from
the shorter list.

The Set language list in Word does contain all languages but it also
maintains an MRU section at the top so the languages you routinely use ought
to be there. What are you doing that causes you to have to regularly scroll
through long lists, and can't you type the first letter to bypass most of
the scroll?

To answer your question, no, I don't think you are doing anything wrong. I
would like to see some improvements in the language interfaces myself, but
they are usable, and they don't drive me completely batty.

 

[Magee]

Thanks for your reply, Tony. I have my Language set to US English default,
but if someone sends me a collection of documents that have to be set to
Canadian or UK English but they don't know about the Set Language, it gets
tedious scrolling the list to change the language for each file because other
versions of English do not always show at the top. I have no use for
languages like Edo and Nepalese, etc., so I thought it would be nice to just
get all of those off the list. I didn't think to repeatedly hit E until the
other English forms in the list came up (after Edo, sheesh!). So at least I
can do that now.