Re: Word 2004 has lost my Autocorrect preferences

Thank god Daiya worked out what it was, because I was struggling :-)

No: It's not the "Font" that does it, it's the "Keyboard".

For some incredibly stupid reason, Word switches languages whenever you
switch keyboards. And you have to switch keyboards to access special
characters easily on the Mac.

I have been campaigning to get this bug fixed for a couple of years. So
far, no luck. So if you want to access a Polish character, you switch to
the Polish keyboard. Word inserts a "Begin Polish" language mark into your
text. Then you type your character and switch back to the English keyboard.

Word forgets to close the Polish language marking. None of your
autocorrects, spelling, grammar, etc will work from that point forward until
you fix the language!!

However, Word 2008 has a new Preference: Edit>Match Font with Keyboard,
which might prevent it happening.

Cheers

On 19/06/08 10:15 AM, in article
garyg-2B0DCC.20151218062008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Gary Goldberg"
<garyg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <uFcf7XV0IHA.2292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Daiya Mitchell <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gary Goldberg wrote:

Late (and last) word (I hope!) - the situation "auto-corrected" itself
after I copied-and-pasted an entire Polish placename from Wikipedia into
the document and adjusted the style, font, and font size! Now my
ordinals are OK, the Thesaurus words, autocorrect works, the sun is
shining :-)


So, caused and fixed by adding Polish? After the fact diagnosis--both
autocorrecting and Thesaurus are language dependent. Language in Word is
a sort of invisible formatting--if the text is not tagged as English,
then the autocorrects you set up for the English language will not work.
When you copied a Polish character, it brought Polish language with it.
The text you type directly after pasting something carries the
formatting of the pasting with it, just as if you had pasted something
bold, when you hit enter after the paste, the next line will still be
bold. So it sounds like Word thought you were still typing Polish, and
that's why all those things stopped working (well, I'm a bit surprised
about the ordinals).

When you adjusted the style/font/size, then you also likely restored the
invisible English formatting.

Slightly more info here, if you wish:
http://word.mvps.org/mac/SpellCheck.html#HowItWorks

Thanks for the insight Daiya. When I first inserted Polish (a single
letter) it was by activating the Input Menu of the Systems Preference
pane. When I "fixed" the problem it was by copying and pasting from a
Wikipedia page, which apparently does not use the same "foreign" fonts
despite having the correct diacriticals.

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
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