Powerpoint couldn't find spelling file (german)

[Christine]

I'm working with a PPT file that was received from
Vienna. The presentation was originally typed in German,
then translated to English for our use.

We've tested the spellchecker on two different systems.

Initially we both get an alert box saying that "PowerPoint
couldn't find the spelling file for(German)Germany", then
it attempts to check the file but doesn't necessarily
catch all mispelled words.

Is this strictly related to the custom dictionary or could
this be language related?

Is there a way to get 'behind the scenes' in PPT to the
VBA code (like you can in Access) and tell it to stop
looking for the german dictionary? Is this even
necessary?

p.s. I've changed the default language for the
spellchecker to English.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

You are getting this message because some of the text in the presentation
is still tagged with the Langage ID for "German (Germany)". Depending on
how the presentation was created, it might be very difficult to change all
text to the Language ID for the speller that you want to use, but here's
sample code to accomplish it:

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

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John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
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