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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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Default How do I get rid of Asian Typography in Word?

At this point I'm not clear whether you've also disabled all Asian languages
through Start | Programs | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office Tools |
Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings?

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"Andy at Trinity" wrote in message
...
Hi Suzanne,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - I've only just had a chance

to
go through various trials of this...
1. I have renamed Normal.dot to force Word to create a new one... it

retains
the Asian typography, etc.
2. I have opened Normal.dot, forced it to select English (UK) as the

default
language, stored it, but Word retains the Asian typography, etc.
3. As I have several user accounts on my machine, I have renamed every
Normal.dot file on it... Word creates a new one in the place I expected

(for
1 & 2 above) and retains the Asian typography.
4. I have ensured every Office application is closed, re-checked and
re-applied the English (UK) language setting through Control Panel /

Regional
settings, through MS Office / Language selection app, then re-tried the
Normal.dot stuff again...

Still got Asian typography settings. I can open the latest created
Normal.dot after all the above (in TextPad) and clearly see that "MS

Mincho"
is listed near the start of the file.

Is there anything in the registry that might be magically retaining this
Asian settings?

Yours in despair...

Andy

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Language formatting can be very persistent and can ride in on external
documents. Have you opened Normal.dot explicitly and changed its default
language?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Andy at Trinity" wrote in

message
...
Thanks for your persistence. However, having done all below, rebooted

the
PC,
and subsequently also used the Add/Remove Program feature for

Microsoft
Word,
to remove all International support (under Office Shared Features -

I've
X'd
every one of the options from Armenian down to Simplified Chinese), I

*still*
have the corner cross hairs, Asian Typography, etc. I tried killing my
normal.dot file to get that regenerated from defaults, but that made

no
difference.

I'm sure that this should be simple - but is there some combination of
Office XP / 2003 / Project / IE / etc. that means these sort of

configuration
items don't get propagated correctly?

Fingers crossed that you (or someone else out there) has some idea of

how
to
fix this!)

Andy

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Click on Start | Control Panel | Regional & Language
Options.

On the Regional Options tab, select English UK under "Standards
and formats", and select UK under "Location".

On the Languages tab, click on Details | Settings tab | Default
input language: English UK | OK, and uncheck the "Install files
for complex script and right-to-left languages" and "Install
files for East Asian languages" boxes | Apply | OK.

Andy at Trinity wrote:

Thanks for this. The KB article was very interesting, as the crop

marks did,
indeed, turn up at the same time that all the Asian stuff turned

up.

I followed the instructions in the KB (and as noted by Tony in his

post) and
my Office Language list is just English UK (which I can't delete -

it's
greyed out) and English US. However, Word still has the crop marks

at
the
corner of each page, and insists on keeping all the Asian

notation,
options,
etc.

Under Tools/Language, this 'feature' also added the Japanese

Consistency
Checker; under Tools/Options there are "Japanese Find" and "Asian

Typography"
options, as well as the points I noted below.

Any other ideas on how to fix this (is it possible that the

language
selection under Start/Programs/Office/etc. isn't correctly kicking

all
the
office apps to remove the Asian stuff?)

Andy

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:


See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=839371 "Margin marks or
crop marks appear on each corner of the page when you open a
document in Word 2002 or in Word 2003".

Andy at Trinity wrote:


Some time past my copy of Word decided it would add Asian

Typography
options
in Format/Paragraph and various Asian-related add-ons in the

Tools/Options
tabs, and now even my Normal Font shows up as (Asian) Times

Roman...
etc.

How do I get rid of this stuff - I neither need, nor want it?