Setting language

[Roy]

Hi,
I am using Word 2003. I change the default language to English (UK) but
it is constantly changing itself back to English (US) & I find that I'm
checking my spelling in American. Crumbs I love America & even Americans
but I'm getting really fed up with constantly changing the default.

Is there a way of removing the other languages thus forcing it to use
English (UK)?

God bless America ;-)

Roy




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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Despite your best efforts, US English can ride in on a single (pasted)
character, and if it happens to be at the insertion point, then everything
you type thereafter will be in US English, which you may not realize till
you spell check. But see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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[aalaan]

I've had this problem too. What about CTRL-spacebar to remove all language
settings in the document. And then CTRL A and apply the default 'correct'
language on the OP's machine?

 

[Roy]

Thank you both for your input, Ctrl Spacebar & A worked great & I will check
all the other settings later.

Thanks again,

Roy.
Hi,
I am using Word 2003. I change the default language to English (UK) but
it is constantly changing itself back to English (US) & I find that I'm
checking my spelling in American. Crumbs I love America & even Americans
but I'm getting really fed up with constantly changing the default.

Is there a way of removing the other languages thus forcing it to use
English (UK)?

God bless America ;-)

Roy




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address book, send me, e - greetings cards or
web page links via their site to my address.

I'm trying to cut down on junk mail.

Thank you.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ctrl+A is a good first step in any case. Ctrl+Spacebar is either unnecessary
or should do the trick. That is, Ctrl+Spacebar returns text to the default
paragraph font; if it removes discrepant language formatting, then it would
be sufficient. If it doesn't, then it's pointless, since you'll need to
apply the correct language anyway.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[aalaan]

For once, Suzanne, I have trouble with your reasoning. How can something be
at the same time unnecessary *or* do the trick. And your elucidation didn't
elucidate me (it may be me). What I needed to do was remove spurious
explicit language settings from within the document and impose the one
language throughout. Nothing worked and the explicit rogue settings
persisted until I first did a CTRL-spacebar. That seemed to clear
everything.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ctrl+Spacebar is unnecessary if it is ineffective (that is, if it does not
succeed in removing the incorrect language and you have to do that through
Tools | Language). It's sufficient if it's effective at returning the text
to the default language. Without testing (which I didn't have time for), I
couldn't say which would be the case.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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