how to stop windows detecting and applying a language in a text?

[rosa]

I would like to have Windows NOT DETECTING automatically the languages in an
Office text. I work with mulitlingual texts and it is a real nightmare of red
lines! and windows does not remember my multilingual settings from one
session to the other!
thanks

 

[Bec]

Auto detector for languages is HELL. How do I fully remove English USA- I am
Australian and it is causing grammer errors that are costing me marks at Uni.
Help my kill USA English Please!!!! EVERY time I do a spell check it auto
detects even if I follow your instructions for Rosa. I'm using Vista and
Office 2007.
Thanks

 

[Graham Mayor]

You cannot remove English US completely. You can disable the automatic
language detection from the language tool and format in any flavour of
English available - Review > Language - but the proofing language is a text
formatting parameter so depending on where you enter the material from, you
may bring with it the language it was originally formatted with. If you do
so, you will have to apply the required proofing language to the text.

Even American English can spell 'grammar' and if you have to rely on the
dubious efforts of a computer grammar checker then I'm afraid that it is
your inability to understand the intricacies of English grammar and not the
grammar checker that is causing you to lose the marks.

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[Sam Calder]

You cannot remove English US completely. You can disable the automatic
language detection from the language tool and format in any flavour of
English available

You cannot remove it completely but you can remove it from your "Regional
and Language Options" and this is what finally solved this annoyance for me.

I tried what is suggested here to no avail.... Every new document I created
still came up as being "English (US)".

Eventually I found that my default language for the computer was set to
"English (US)". I removed "English (US)", rebooted and at last my new
documents default to "English (Australia)"!

Also, you may prefer to make the suggested change in your normal.dot. Once
done, press the "Default" button to set it as the default.

I'm pretty sure I changed my default language (Control Panel > Regional and
Language Options > Languages > Details) were set to "Australia" when I took
over this machine (I'm at work) so it may get reset by Windows Updates and/or
admin bots (or whatever) within a controlled environment.

 

[David]

I would have to guess from the sheer arogance behind this reply that Graham
works for Microsoft. (Another clue may be that he doesn't seem to understand
the difference between grammar and spelling.) This attitude that if MS can't
solve it then it doesn't need to be solved is one of the reasons many of us
hope Google, et al, will soon produce good enough alternatives.

My reason for commenting is that I, like Bec, am an Australasian and can't
understand why MS insists that US English be included among the defaults.
What's the point of that?

The solutions given above and below have not helped me. I still get US
English included every time I reopen Outlook (along with NZ English) and it
refuses to allow me to add perfectly acceptable ENGLISH spelling to my
Custom.dic because "Add to dictionery" is greyed out every time. I've removed
Auto Detect for languages in Word but can't find where to do that in Outlook.
But even in Word, "Add to Dictionery" is still greyed out.

:

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Graham does not work for Microsoft. None of us do. We're all volunteers
here.

If you want New Zealand English to be your default language, you must set it
in Windows; see http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.
It's also advisable to disable automatic language detection.

For the rest, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm

And if Word is not saving your settings, then you may need to rebuild the
Word Data key in the Registry (also make sure that Normal.dot is being saved
when you make changes).

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

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you are going to complain about my understanding of English then you
should note that 'arrogance' has a double 'r' and 'dictionary; is spelled
with an 'a'.

Microsoft doesn't need to 'solve it' as there is nothing to solve. The
function works as intended, when configured correctly.

However I don't work for Microsoft and my response (which showed no
misunderstanding of the differences between spelling and grammar) was a
sarcastic reflection on the fact that someone wasting time at university,
unable even to spell the 'grammar' part of the checker being complained
about, with the aid of a spell checker that works in all forms of English,
is not going to be helped to gain marks by a function that requires a
grounding in English grammar in order to make some worthwhile use of it.

Dare I suggest that a common reason the language is that material
plagiarised from the web is almost certainly formatted with the American
English formatting parameter, which is being retained when pasted into Word?
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[pmg]

I'm using Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2007. My problem with the language
detection is that whenever I copy and paste, it wants to change everything to
French. I have English (U.S.) selected and 'Detect language automatically' is
not checked. Is there something I can do to correct this problem?
Patti

 

[Stefan Blom]

After you have pasted the text, select it and manually set the language back
to U.S. English. Or use Paste Special, choosing to paste as "Unformatted
Text."