How to turn off automatic language recognition (Word 2007)

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Hi all

I am editing a document written in Language A by adding text that I
write in Language B.

Every time that the cursor "touches" a paragraph written in lang. A
MSWord automatically switches to the spelling checker for lang. A and I
have to manually change it to lang. B.

This is is very time-wasting and inconvenient.

From menu REVIEW-Set Language I tried tried to save the document as a
lang. B document, but no way, Word always switches to lang. A if I move
the cursor to a portion of document written in lang. A.

Is there a way to *force* Word to use lang. B for spell checking?

Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I assume you've already disabled language recognition in the Set Language
dialog? If you want Language B to be used for the entire document, then you
must select the entire document (Ctrl+A) and apply Language B to it in the
Set Language dialog.

FWIW, I should think you would want Word to use the proofing tools for the
language applied to the text; what good does it do to spell-check, say,
French, with an English spell checker?

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

 

[Tc@t]

I assume you've already disabled language recognition in the Set Language
dialog? If you want Language B to be used for the entire document, then you
must select the entire document (Ctrl+A) and apply Language B to it in the
Set Language dialog.

FWIW, I should think you would want Word to use the proofing tools for the
language applied to the text; what good does it do to spell-check, say,
French, with an English spell checker?

As an answer to your question when doing translations, especially for
proof reading purposes, or bilingual peer-editing, or even mandatory
production of bi-lingual documents, you are dealing with documents that
are initially written in a language A and then are translated to a
language B paragraph by paragraph.

You end up with a document where paragraphs are alternately written in
lang A and lang B, e.g.

water
agua
water
agua
water
....

You normally receive the document written in Language A and you have to
translate into Language B in-text, so you don't care about
spell-checking Language A text, what you need is spell checking of the
parts that you wrote in Language B, completely ignoring the spelling in
Language A.

I hope this answers your question.

As to Word, I did what suggested, I selected the whole document text and
set it to language B, it worked for a while, then Word warned me that
there are too many spelling errors in the document and now it does not
perform spell checking as-you-type anymore.

Not the best example of software usability IMHO.

au revoir

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Okay, in this case you need to apply a different paragraph style to the
paragraphs in Language A. Format that style as "Do not check spelling or
grammar" and they will be skipped, and you won't get the message about "too
many errors."

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

 

[Opinicus]

when doing translations, especially for proof reading purposes, or
bilingual peer-editing, or even mandatory production of bi-lingual
documents, you are dealing with documents that are initially written in a
language A and then are translated to a language B paragraph by paragraph.

You end up with a document where paragraphs are alternately written in
lang A and lang B, e.g.

water
agua
water
agua
water

This is how I make my living. (;-)) My solution is to use double columns
with the source language in the left column and the target language in the
right. I physically align the texts paragraph by paragraph using carriage
returns rather than rows however as that makes things like word counting and
proofing easier.