[surfhawk]

I am using the English version of Word 2003 and have typed an article in
Spanish.
I have enabled support for the Spanish language through the MS Office
Language settings.
I also have turned on Automatic Language detection.

When I try to spell check in Spanish, "English (US)" appears in the
"Dictionary Language:" window.
If I change that to "Spanish (Mexico)", or any other form of Spanish, the
checker automatically reverts to the former--English (US)--after the first
word is checked.

How can I get the language for spell checking to remain Spanish until I
switch it back to English?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Did you select the entire document (Ctrl+A) and go to Tools | Language | Set
Language and select "Spanish (Mexico)" and apply it to the document? See
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"surfhawk" wrote in message
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I am using the English version of Word 2003 and have typed an article in
Spanish.
I have enabled support for the Spanish language through the MS Office
Language settings.
I also have turned on Automatic Language detection.

When I try to spell check in Spanish, "English (US)" appears in the
"Dictionary Language:" window.
If I change that to "Spanish (Mexico)", or any other form of Spanish, the
checker automatically reverts to the former--English (US)--after the first
word is checked.

How can I get the language for spell checking to remain Spanish until I
switch it back to English?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

[Graham Mayor]

The proofing language is a formatting parameter for the particular text. You
must apply it to the text you wish to check in an alternative language. Turn
off the automatic language detection, which is at best hit and miss leading
to false language selection, and apply the language format to the text. You
may find it worth creating a Spanish character style that you can readily
apply to Spanish texts - and to add the language to Windows regional
settings so that you can switch input languages from the keyboard.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



surfhawk wrote:
I am using the English version of Word 2003 and have typed an article
in Spanish.
I have enabled support for the Spanish language through the MS Office
Language settings.
I also have turned on Automatic Language detection.

When I try to spell check in Spanish, "English (US)" appears in the
"Dictionary Language:" window.
If I change that to "Spanish (Mexico)", or any other form of Spanish,
the checker automatically reverts to the former--English (US)--after
the first word is checked.

How can I get the language for spell checking to remain Spanish until
I switch it back to English?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

[surfhawk]

Thank you for your suggestions Suzanne and Graham. I got it done!


"surfhawk" wrote:

I am using the English version of Word 2003 and have typed an article in
Spanish.
I have enabled support for the Spanish language through the MS Office
Language settings.
I also have turned on Automatic Language detection.

When I try to spell check in Spanish, "English (US)" appears in the
"Dictionary Language:" window.
If I change that to "Spanish (Mexico)", or any other form of Spanish, the
checker automatically reverts to the former--English (US)--after the first
word is checked.

How can I get the language for spell checking to remain Spanish until I
switch it back to English?

I would appreciate any suggestions.