I suspect that auto detection may work fairly well for large chunks of any
given language, not so well for isolated words and phrases (understandably).
And if Word does identify a word or phrase as being in another language, it
may not switch back to the base language afterward. The primary problem that
people have with spell checking, though, is that text pasted in from another
source brings its language formatting with it.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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