Re: Spell Check language change problem

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From: Jackie (Jackie_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:56:23 -0700

When I go to your website I follow to the prompts to
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/MyFavTip.htm#LangFormat

and then I cannot read anything but the headers. Everything else shows as unprintable characters or shapes. I'm guessing you are using a font I don't have??? I am using internet explorer 6.0, running windows 2000 service pack 4.

As for my Word version, it's Word 2000 (version 9.0 build 3821 - service pack 1)

I never use French. I don't know where autolanguage detection is set. can't check it. Pressing Shift+Alt doesn't change my keyboard language. My keyboard doesn't type french characters, it's only spell check and grammer check that change to French. I have never used French for anything on this computer, never had a french document. I have had some emails that were written in Dutch, but that's the only other language that has ever been displayed here, and I don't use word to read my email.

I would love to read your article, any advice on how I can?

Thanks.

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?SmFja2ll?=,
>
> > Does anyone know why spell check and grammer check switch from US English to French every
> now and then. It's very hard to change it back when this happens.
> >
> Have you read the article on language formatting in Word in the Tips section of my website?
>
> If autolanguage detection isn't on, then you might inadvertently be pressing Shift+Alt to
> switch keyboard languages. If you never or only rarely need French, however, you should
> disable this keyboard trigger, at the very least. Or even remove French as an "input
> language".
>
> If you need more help, you should tell us exactly which version of Word and of Windows
> you're using. But first read that article :-)
>
> > I have read other postings along this line and none have helped. The style of the text is
> set to US English, the language for spell checking is set to US English, everything on the
> system is set to US English, but sometimes, not always, only sometimes, in the middle of
> editing a document using a template that I use all the time without trouble, the spell
> check cahnges to French. I can change the spell check language back to US English but the
> grammar check sticks with french. There is no rhyme or reason to this. Another document
> created with the same template, using the same fonts and styles, works fine.
> >
> > This has happened to me regularly over the years. It happened with Office 97 and now with
> Office 2000. I am losing hours of work time because I have to start over from scratch when
> this happens.
> >
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
> http://www.word.mvps.org
>
> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the
> newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
>
>

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