To add to this, sometimes getting the proofing language to display on the
status bar for the current text is difficult. If you turn on the Language
option for the status bar you also need to have more than one language
enabled in order for it to actually display and you need to exit and restart
Word. If after you exit and restart Word the proofing language still doesn't
display on the status bar then you may need to close all Office applications
and start Word again. Failing that, try restarting your computer. But once
it does finally appear it will stay unless you return to a single enabled
proofing language . :-)
~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
As I said in the last message,
Right-click on the status bar
Turn on "Language" in the status bar
do a search for a specific language
You will see that language named in the status bar when it Finds it
See what language it reports for the very next (unhighlighted)
character in the document
Track Changes shouldn't interfere with the language settings.
On Aug 27, 3:09 pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote:
Peter,
I tried the steps you suggested. I did not see anything indicating the
language each paragraph is using. I did not have "non-printing" turned
on.
I turned that on, I ran the ctrl F again. I still did not see anything
indicating the language. I did notice the document has "track changes"
turned on. I also noticed alot of words, sentences where "strikethrough"
has
been used. The document also contains some charts, text boxes........
I have been researching this issue for several weeks now.......I
appreciate,
any and all help to resolve this issue.
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom
-- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th
from the top).
Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different
Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs
that are formatted with a different language??
(You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl-
Shift-8.)
On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote:
Peter,
I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the
document
could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your
instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a
paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about
what
language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was
English. Did I do something incorrectly......
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters
of
some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have
somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an
accent
on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and
there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it.
A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit
of
text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) --
Ctrl-
F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire
document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first
character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue
to
where the other language came from.
On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn
wrote:
All,
Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are
written in
English. The documents are large contracts (several
pages....upwards of 100
+). I was wondering if some font in the document could be
causing the
problem. Some of these documents could have been created with
word 2003 then
opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a
document that
was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the
document then try
grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our
machines to
open these documents correctly.
"Greg Maxey" wrote:
Justin,
The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those
languages are not
enabled and available then you see those messages.
You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing
CTRL+A, blah,
blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main
text of the
troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending
language set
could be in one of several other document layers (e.g.,
headers or footers,
textboxes, footnotes, etc.).
Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or
thousands of
these documents. The laborious process of setting the
language manaully
could become very tiresome.
While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a
macro..
Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer()
Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range
Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean
bSetLangUS = False
For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
Do
With oStoryRng
If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then
If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _
& vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to
US English?",
_
vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") =
vbYes Then
bSetLangUS = True
Exit For
.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS
End If
End If
End With
Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange
Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing
Next oStoryRng
If bSetLangUS Then
For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
Do
oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS
Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange
Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing
Next oStoryRng
End If
End Sub
The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on
individual documents
or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the
template so it
would run automatically whenever a document is opened.
Need help with macros? See:
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
Justin Jayjohn wrote:
I have a user that is having issues with grammar check &
word 2007.
She is having the issue related to contract documents she
is to
prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of
these
documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs
installed. One time it might ask for french, another time
brazil..
She gets these documents from several different users. I
even loaded
one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got
the same
message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team,
most
people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I
originally
tried removing the "detect language
automatically" option that was checked. I have found out
that I can
change this on one document. Another document can have
this box
checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this
point:
-ran detect/repair
-ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption
-defragged the hard drive
-installed office sp2 and updates
-completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite
None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue.
Does
anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be
causing
the issue?
--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP
My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org
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