Word 2003 Dictionary Language

[Guest]

I have a doccument that I wrote in English and how for some reason when I try
to spell check it my system is using a French dictionary. I checked MS Office
2003 Language Settings and the only enabled language is English (US). I had
this problem once before and accidentially figured out how to change the
dictionary back to English but cannot recall how I did it? Any suggestions

 

[Cindy M.]

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I have a doccument that I wrote in English and how for some reason when I try
to spell check it my system is using a French dictionary. I checked MS Office
2003 Language Settings and the only enabled language is English (US). I had
this problem once before and accidentially figured out how to change the
dictionary back to English but cannot recall how I did it?

Have you tried Ctrl+A, then Tools/Language/Set language, choosing English?

And while you'rein this dialog box, check if the "Detect language automatically"
checkbox is activated? If it is, that would/could explain how you ended up with
French.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Cindy,
Thanks. "Detect..." was checked and all forms of French are checked on this
document. How do I "uncheck" them?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Read again the first sentence of Cindy's reply.
The language attribute is an individual per character setting.

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[Guest]

Unfortunately, I don't know what you mean by "The language attribute is an
individual per character setting."

 

[Graham Mayor]

It means that every single character can be associated with a language.

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[Guest]

So my question still stands, how do I check only English or un-check all the
French selections?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Select all the text in your document and apply the English language
parameter to it.

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[Guest]

I thought I had done that before but apparently not. This time it worked!
Thanks very much.

 

[Graham Mayor]

You must have missed a character or two.

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[Confused Charley]

You saved my sanity. I had removed Office 2003 and reloaded it and still had
the same problem.

How do I make sure I always have my documents in english US?

The original document was down loaded from the internet!! could that have
been the proble??

Thanks again

Charley 1938

 

[Graham Mayor]

Language is a text formatting parameter. If you copy material from the
internet then you have no control over what language parameter is already
applied to that text. One way to ensure it matches the text you paste into
is to use edit > paste special > unformatted text. Otherwise its a matter of
changing the language of the document to your own requirements (CTRL+A >
Tools > Language > Set language - and while in that dialog ensure
automatically detect language is unchecked).

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