Re: Setting The Language For Page Numbers

Hi Will:

You guys really have to get a handle on "inheritance". He says smugly,
since it's at least three consecutive days since I was last trapped by it
:-)

The Page Number character style can have a language set. If it hasn't, it
will inherit it from the properties of the underlying paragraph. If the
underlying paragraph has no language set, it will inherit from the paragraph
style (Footer, in this case). If the Footer style has no language set, it
will inherit from the Normal style. If the Normal style has no language
set, it will inherit from the Document.

So: Follow the change back in that order, ensuring that everything is set
to English US, all the way back to the Document.

Understand that the Default button sets the language for the Document, or
the Normal template. If you update the Normal template, that fixes future
documents created as blank documents: it has no effect on existing
documents, documents created by someone else, or documents created from a
different template.

You can't actually turn off the No Proofing warning. But if you set the
entire chain of styles to English US, you won't see it. Or, if you set a
style to a language you do not have installed, Word will silently ignore it.

You *can* (and I do...) perform a Find/Replace for No Proofing in an entire
document and replace it with English US. This sets the formatting as direct
formatting rather than within the style: not a "nice" way to do it, but it
ensures that the entire document gets checked.

Hope this helps

On 12/6/05 5:45 AM, in article BED0B7A2966874FD4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Will
Simmons" <wsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Running Word 98 under OS 9.2.2 on a beige G3 with 352 MB Built-in memory. I
> have attempted to carry out the detailed instructions in John McGhie's
> massive response to my plea for aid, in his "Re: Spell Check - No Proofing'
> Alert" dated Fri, 27 Jun 2003, 13:52:50 +100, telling how to set the
> Language in my Normal template so my spell checker does not throw up the
> infamous alert: "Text set to (no proofing) was skipped," etc., requiring a
> hunt for such text to see what's up.
>
> But, here it is almost exactly two years later, and I still get the alert,
> even though my Normal Template Tools-Language default is English US. When I
> set Find to search for Format-Language-(no proofing), it finds my footer
> which, when I do the Tools-Set Language shuffle, shows that the page number
> is set to "(no proofing)."
>
> When I go to Format Style, set the page number character style to
> Language-English US and click the Default button, then save the Normal
> template: Guess what ? You got it: the same thing all over again. That is,
> when I open a brand new document, type something in, then spell check it, I
> get the Great Alert and, when I set Find to "no proofing," it goes right
> to my footer page number, which Tools-Language confirms is set to "(no
> proofing)."
>
> OK, I can live with having my page numbers set to "no proofing" forever.
> But, is there a way at least to avoid the "Language = no proofing" alert
> when all that's involved is the doggone page numbers ? It is a massive
> waste of time to go through the "No proofing" search in every new document
> just to assure that it's nothing more thing. How did this abomination get
> this way ?
>
> TIA, as usual.
>
> -- Will --
>
>
>
>

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John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 4 1209 1410

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