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Word 2007 set language issue
Hi,
I'm co-writing a document in Word 2007 with someone who's in Canada and who has his language set to English Canada, oddly enough. We've agreed to use U.S. spelling. However, when I try to reset the language in a doc he's created to English U.S., it doesn't work. I've tried selecting all text, some text, language remains set to Canada. I'm on Vista, God help me (especially with Word, which routinely crashes and restarts on exit), and my language is set to U.S. in the OS. Anyone got another angle of attack? Thanks, Tom |
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Word 2007 set language issue
How are you setting the language? Setting it at the character level should
work: select the text and use Review tab | Set Language. That being said, also note that recent versions of Word are rather unpredictable with language formatting; see http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "T Maddox" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm co-writing a document in Word 2007 with someone who's in Canada and who has his language set to English Canada, oddly enough. We've agreed to use U.S. spelling. However, when I try to reset the language in a doc he's created to English U.S., it doesn't work. I've tried selecting all text, some text, language remains set to Canada. I'm on Vista, God help me (especially with Word, which routinely crashes and restarts on exit), and my language is set to U.S. in the OS. Anyone got another angle of attack? Thanks, Tom |
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Hi,
Thanks for the help. I'm setting the language at the character level as you describe it. However, the link you give explains that the language may still revert to the language the doc was created in. Which is my problem. I am stunned that this problem has existed for several versions of Word. However, I'm also stunned that Word behaves so erratically running under Vista. Working with others professionally, I am chained to Word. If I weren't, I'd have given up on it some time ago. Programs that are simply too complex to perform the most basic functions should be rewritten from scratch, abandoned, or ... I have no idea. Sorry for the minor rant. Tom On May 30, 3:50*am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: How are you setting thelanguage? Setting it at the character level should work: select the text and use Review tab |SetLanguage. That being said, also note that recent versions of Word are rather unpredictable withlanguageformatting; seehttp://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "T Maddox" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm co-writing a document in Word 2007 with someone who's in Canada and who has hislanguagesetto English Canada, oddly enough. We've agreed to use U.S. spelling. However, when I try to reset thelanguage in a doc he's created to English U.S., it doesn't work. I've tried selecting all text, some text,languageremainssetto Canada. I'm on Vista, God help me (especially with Word, which routinely crashes and restarts on exit), and mylanguageissetto U.S. in the OS. Anyone got another angle of attack? Thanks, Tom |
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Hi T,
However, I'm also stunned that Word behaves so erratically running under Vista. In what way "erratically". I've been working with the same software combination for over a year (even wrote an entire book!) and have had absolutely no problems that I'd term "erratic". Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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Thanks for the help. I'm setting the language at the character level
as you describe it. However, the link you give explains that the language may still revert to the language the doc was created in. Which is my problem. Have you tried recreating the file as explained in the end of the article at http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm ? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "T Maddox" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks for the help. I'm setting the language at the character level as you describe it. However, the link you give explains that the language may still revert to the language the doc was created in. Which is my problem. I am stunned that this problem has existed for several versions of Word. However, I'm also stunned that Word behaves so erratically running under Vista. Working with others professionally, I am chained to Word. If I weren't, I'd have given up on it some time ago. Programs that are simply too complex to perform the most basic functions should be rewritten from scratch, abandoned, or ... I have no idea. Sorry for the minor rant. Tom On May 30, 3:50 am, "Stefan Blom" wrote: How are you setting thelanguage? Setting it at the character level should work: select the text and use Review tab |SetLanguage. That being said, also note that recent versions of Word are rather unpredictable withlanguageformatting; seehttp://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "T Maddox" wrote in message ... Hi, I'm co-writing a document in Word 2007 with someone who's in Canada and who has hislanguagesetto English Canada, oddly enough. We've agreed to use U.S. spelling. However, when I try to reset thelanguage in a doc he's created to English U.S., it doesn't work. I've tried selecting all text, some text,languageremainssetto Canada. I'm on Vista, God help me (especially with Word, which routinely crashes and restarts on exit), and mylanguageissetto U.S. in the OS. Anyone got another angle of attack? Thanks, Tom |
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