No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been
set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the
language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a
given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a
specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion
point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set
standard for the document.
This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a
"set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different
language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire
if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these
unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and
pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly
vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired
language setting.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can
watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of
the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival)
form is the same as the basic verb form.
The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ
from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice
until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas
(French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a
nonbreaking space before it (French).
On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set
Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this
button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in
...
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
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org---