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Changing the language preference for a document in Word 2007
I received a document, which I have to edit and add to. For some unknown
reason, the language preference for this document is English (United States). I work in English (South Africa). My default language options under Word Options, Language, has been set to English (South Africa). but this has no effect. Obviously, this causes a lot of unnecessary stress, anger and frustration, when I have to cancel auto corrections, wait for the word to be shown as a spelling error, and then change the language - for that word only - to English (South Africa). And don't tell me to look on the review tab, because there is no option there to change the language settings. On the review tab the only language related options are Spelling & Grammar - to do a spell check, but not to change the document's language settings; Research, Thesaurus and Translate. Seems to me the only way to change this document will be to select each word, right click, select Language, and change it. When you block a word, a sentence, a paragraph or the document, and you right click, this Language option is not there. To be quite honest, I prefer Word 2002 and 2003! At least, it was user friendly, which cannot be said of 2007 -- Hth Kassie Kasselman Change xxx to hotmail |
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Changing the language preference for a document in Word 2007
OK, figured it out. Went to Word Options, chose Customize, selected All
Commands, moved Language to the quick access toolbar, and that did the trick -- Hth Kassie Kasselman Change xxx to hotmail "Kassie" wrote: I received a document, which I have to edit and add to. For some unknown reason, the language preference for this document is English (United States). I work in English (South Africa). My default language options under Word Options, Language, has been set to English (South Africa). but this has no effect. Obviously, this causes a lot of unnecessary stress, anger and frustration, when I have to cancel auto corrections, wait for the word to be shown as a spelling error, and then change the language - for that word only - to English (South Africa). And don't tell me to look on the review tab, because there is no option there to change the language settings. On the review tab the only language related options are Spelling & Grammar - to do a spell check, but not to change the document's language settings; Research, Thesaurus and Translate. Seems to me the only way to change this document will be to select each word, right click, select Language, and change it. When you block a word, a sentence, a paragraph or the document, and you right click, this Language option is not there. To be quite honest, I prefer Word 2002 and 2003! At least, it was user friendly, which cannot be said of 2007 -- Hth Kassie Kasselman Change xxx to hotmail |
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Changing the language preference for a document in Word 2007
Hi,
The language command has no caption, but it displays as a globe icon to the right of the "Thesaurus" command in the Proofing group on the Review tab. -- Cheers Robert ------------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:34:05 -0700, Kassie wrote: I received a document, which I have to edit and add to. For some unknown reason, the language preference for this document is English (United States). I work in English (South Africa). My default language options under Word Options, Language, has been set to English (South Africa). but this has no effect. Obviously, this causes a lot of unnecessary stress, anger and frustration, when I have to cancel auto corrections, wait for the word to be shown as a spelling error, and then change the language - for that word only - to English (South Africa). And don't tell me to look on the review tab, because there is no option there to change the language settings. On the review tab the only language related options are Spelling & Grammar - to do a spell check, but not to change the document's language settings; Research, Thesaurus and Translate. Seems to me the only way to change this document will be to select each word, right click, select Language, and change it. When you block a word, a sentence, a paragraph or the document, and you right click, this Language option is not there. To be quite honest, I prefer Word 2002 and 2003! At least, it was user friendly, which cannot be said of 2007 |
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