In word 2003, my default language for all my documents is Welsh for some
reason. When I try to change the default language to English (UK) the
computer tells me that in the future my default language will change to
English (UK). Upon restarting word, the language is still Welsh. The only
way change the language is to highlight the text I have already written and
change the language manually, then it will change to English (until I restart
Word 2003 again).
I have installed service pack 2 but to no avail. This is a really annoying
problem and any help would be useful.

Click on Start | Control Panel | Regional & Language
Options | Languages | Details | Settings. What is the default
input language?

Open a Word document in which this problem occurs. Press Ctrl+A
to select all of the text. Click on Tools | Language | Set
Language | choose your language | uncheck the "Detect language
automatically" and "Do not check spelling or grammar" boxes |
Default | OK. This change will affect the current document and
all new documents you create from this point forward. You will
have to make this change individually in your existing documents.

Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If yes, then the
Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents
Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template
(which is where some language settings are stored). See
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331259.html for several
solutions to the problem.


Dave Berry, United Kingdom wrote:

In word 2003, my default language for all my documents is Welsh for some
reason. When I try to change the default language to English (UK) the
computer tells me that in the future my default language will change to
English (UK). Upon restarting word, the language is still Welsh. The only
way change the language is to highlight the text I have already written and
change the language manually, then it will change to English (until I restart
Word 2003 again).
I have installed service pack 2 but to no avail. This is a really annoying
problem and any help would be useful.