Help turn off French Language in a PowerPoint Presentation

[Peter Harrington]

Hi:

My French colleague sent me a couple of slides in a PowerPoint presentation.
Two dictionaries are enabled French and US English. I cannot disable the
French dictionary in this document. I tried using office tools, but it only
controls, I guess the default language, and is useless for documents that
have already been created.

How can I get rid of the French Spell check which is highlighting every
correctly spelled English word as misspelled?

Thanks,

Pete

 

[Luc]

Peter,
Just a thought open your presentation and choose the outline tab on the left
of your screen, this shows you all of the text you put in the slides. Now
select them all (CTRL+A). Choose tools and language, select English as the
language and hit OK. This works for me here in PPT 2003, I am almost certain
it does in PPT 2002 also.
Luc

 

[Luc]

Peter,
My suggestion will only work if the text is in placeholders, though. I do
not know about textboxes you draw yourself. Maybe somebody else will have
better ideas on that one.
Luc

 

[Peter Harrington]

Thanks, Luc.

Your advice worked perfectly.

Pete

 

[Echo S]

See if there's anything under Tools/Autocorrect which helps, Peter.

Or maybe you just need to change the language IDs of the textboxes to
English. I suspect they're tagged as French if your French colleague created
the presentation, as PPT picks up its default language ID from the creator's
keyboard layout.

See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245819&Product=ppt
and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245468&Product=ppt
for some ideas.

 

[Echo S]

I love the outline idea, Luc! Very cool.

I just posted a KB article link for Peter (not realizing you'd already
resolved his issue -- my bad!) which provides code to change the language ID
for all the textboxes.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you might like this (change
language ID for all text in a presentation) to be a lot easier to do in
PowerPoint.

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