Language and Spell Check

[Norma Kennedy Plourde]

Hi,
I have been having a problem with FrontPage 2002 and spell check. For my
web pages, I use both English and French. More English than French though.
So, for the spell check to work properly on an English page, I set in Page
Properties, Language: Page Language: English (US), HTML Encoding: Save the
document as: US/Western, Reload the current document: <Automatic encoding>.
Now, the problem is, when I first imported my web into FP, since my keyboard
is set to French (I need it that way so I can use the French accents), it
automatically designated the site (all of the pages) as a French site. So
each time I open a page to edit it, a lot of times, the setting in Page
Properties for that page gets automatically reverted to French. So, I tried
setting the Page Language to None, but that often gets changed back to
French too. Now, this is strange, but it doesn't get reverted to French all
the time, but just a lot of the time. So, I have to change it back to what
I want it as, and do the spell check again. I can't find what action is
causing this.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks! Norma

 

[Guest]

Try this. Under Tools, Site Settings, Language, select Ignore The keyboard
When Deciding The Encoding Of New Pages.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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[Norma Kennedy Plourde]

Hi Jim,
I just looked there, and there already was a checkmark there...in any case,
wouldn't that just affect newly created pages?
Norma

 

[Guest]

Well, yes, but this whole area is a bit quirky. I thought that if perhaps an
individual page, under Page Properties, Language, had a Mark Current Document
As: value of <none>, it was defaulting to the keyboard langauge.

Perhaps if a page is marked as no language, and then you run shell check or
some other language-sensitive command, FrontPage gets the spell-checking
langauge from the keyboard setting and then assigns it to the page. This
might be something to test.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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|| Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out
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|| Web Database Development Step by Step .NET Edition
|| Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out
|| Faster Smarter Beginning Programming
|| (All from Microsoft Press)
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[Norma Kennedy Plourde]

Hi Jim,
I think I have finally figured it out, following your email. I have figured
out that there is a difference in "Keyboard setting for language" and
"FrontPage settings for languages.. Because of what you said, I figured out
if I choose <none>, spell checking is done by the default language set for
the web in FP.

In FP, you can set language for the whole web, for an individual page or for
selected text within a page.

Whole Web: Tools, Page Options, General, Default Spelling Language, Select,
OK

Individual Page: Right-click on empty spot on page, Page Properties,
Language, Page Language, Mark current document as..., OK

Selected Text (This is for spell check only): Highlight desired text that is
in different language than from page language, Tools, Set Language, Mark
Selected Text as..., OK

Thanks a million! I am really happy now!

Norma