Language changes from English to French

[Rich]

I have a presentation which was created in French (language)
presumably in Powerpoint (XP). When I perform a spell check, the
dictionary defaults to French. I then set the language (in Powerpoint
XP) to English and rerun the spell check, the dictionary reverts back
to French!! I have set my regional options to English. Same results.
I then select all the slides (using Ctrl-A), setting Powerpoint to
English default and rerunning the spell check. But the dictionary
still reverts back to French! There is no option to change the
keyboard settings (as some have suggested this may work) Any ideas?

 

[Echo S]

I've been away, so I didn't see your post in the original thread. I've
responded there.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

PowerPoint only provides the ability to change selected text to a specific
Language ID setting and, since you cannot always select all text in a
presentation at the same time you cannot change the language ID of all text
in a presentation in one step (without using VBA or add-ins).

Q245468 - Sample Code to Change the Language ID of a Text Box
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=245468

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that there should be
additional language setting/detection/etc. features in PowerPoint, don't
forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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