Language auto-detect stuck on US English

[Guest]

I am in Word 2000, and have language auto-detect turned on, as I regularly use English, French and German in the same document
Word correctly identifies these languages, but always sets English to English (US), despite
My default language in normal.dot is English (Australian)
In Office language settings, my only enabled languages are English (Australian), French and German
This is very annoying, not only because of spelling variations, but also because auto-correct is language specific. ie, after Word switches back to English from French or German, my auto-correct no longer functions, until I manually switch from English (US) to English (Australian).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The default language in Word (regardless of what you choose in Tools |
Language | Set Language) is the language selected in Control Panel |
Regional Options.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I am in Word 2000, and have language auto-detect turned on, as I regularly

use English, French and German in the same document.

Word correctly identifies these languages, but always sets English to English (US), despite:
My default language in normal.dot is English (Australian);
In Office language settings, my only enabled languages are English

(Australian), French and German.

This is very annoying, not only because of spelling variations, but also

because auto-correct is language specific. ie, after Word switches back to
English from French or German, my auto-correct no longer functions, until I
manually switch from English (US) to English (Australian).

 

[BostonJohn]

Have you ever seen an instance where the "detect language
automatically" option in MS Word 2000 (Tools-Language-Set Language) was
greyed-out and not clickable? I'm having that problem currently.

Thanks,

John

 

[BostonJohn]

Have you ever seen an instance where the "detect language
automatically" option in MS Word 2000 (Tools-Language-Set Language) was
greyed-out and not clickable? I'm having that problem currently.

Thanks,

John

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This might be caused by having proofing tools for only one language
installed. Auto language detection usually causes more problems than it
solves, anyway.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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