Wrong language in grammar suggestions

[Guest]

Hi
I have the Swedish version of Office 2002 installed. Today I tried to check
grammar and spelling in an English document that I had written. When the
program had suggestions for how I could change my writing, it all came in
German!! I asked our IT-guy here at work to try to do the same thing (with
another document, also in English) and he got the same result (same version
of Office). When we try it with a Swedish document, all explanations and
suggestion comes in Swedish. How come German gets mixed in this? I don't even
speak German, and have definitely never installed that language anywhere in
my programs. It doesn't matter if we try a document we have written ourselves
or one that was sent to us from Italy. German is still the language for
suggestions and explanations.

Please help...

 

[Stefan Blom]

Make sure English is set as the language of text in that particular
document. Modifying (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ModifyAStyle.html) the Normal style
should work. However, the easiest way is to just select the text and then
click Tools | Language | Set Language (and sometimes this approach is
necessary; see the link below). Click U.K. English (or whatever "flavor" of
English you want). While you are in the dialog box, also make sure to turn
off the "Detect language automatically" option. Click OK.

For more on setting (the default) language options in Word, see this
article:

Get control of language formatting in Word
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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[Guest]

Thanks for the tip, but that was the first thing I did, before I even tried
to check the grammar and spelling. I selected all the text and made sure that
it was English and nothing else choosen. I have NEVER on this computer even
opened a document in German.

Lena

 

[Guest]

More info:

It's the YELLOW popup note with info about how I should write that's in
German. Not the dialog box itself. The example sentences are in English, but
the explanations are in German. When I open the grammar/spell check and start
it in a document, sometimes one of the buttons changes to (something like)
Explanation (I have the Swedish version so I am not sure what it says in
English). The yellow popup note that then appear is the one I am having
problems with.

Lena

 

[Stefan Blom]

What language is used in Word Help?

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[Guest]

Only Swedish...

Lena

What language is used in Word Help?

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[Stefan Blom]

Let's disregard the language of the suggestions for awhile... Is the text
that you are spell checking being identified as English? What is the chosen
language in the Spelling and Grammar dialog box (in Swedish: Stavning och
grammatik)?

Note that any document created with "Detect language automatically" enabled
can have incorrect language settings. Therefore, it is best to turn it off.

And note that once a language has appeared in a document, it might be
difficult or impossible to get rid of it completely. In such a case,
changing the language of the selection is the only way to fix the document
(as explained at http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm).

Are you saying that when you do choose the correct language, does spell
check still not work? Is English installed as a language (for a Swedish
version, it should be available by default)?

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Microsoft Word MVP


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[Guest]

Yes, the text is identified as English. It spell-checks OK and everything
works fine there. The choosen language is English.

I have saved the document as txt to get rid of all formating and pasted it
into a new fresh document. Didn't help.

Doesn't matter what English text we try.

No "detect language automatically" is turned on.

The only problem is the yellow pop-up notes. Nothing else is in German. Not
in the document, my menus, or the help-file. Wait! One more thing is in
German:
If you, click on Alternative (Alternativ) and then Alternative one more
time, you get a long list of things you can check or want to skip. All is in
English (strange as the program is in Swedish and if you use a Swedish text
Swedish will also be the language for this screen), but on the top right
there are 3 or 4 dropdown boxes; these are in German.

I just went to another colleague to see how it was on his computer, and it
was the same. He also told me that when he wrote particularily bad English,
sometimes a little yellow pop-up note that says "überarbeiten" comes up... We
can't be the only company with this problem, as 3 out of 3 checked computers
react the same. The last colleague I checked with was writing the document
himself and had started from scratch.

Lena

 

[Stefan Blom]

If new, blank documents "behave," you could try this: Delete any section
breaks. Copy the whole document except for the final paragraph mark (first
press Ctrl+A, then Shift+Left arrow, and finally Ctrl+C) and paste into a
fresh document (press Ctrl+V).

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Microsoft Word MVP


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