[Benjamin Barrett]

I have a Japanese-based document that I'm re-writing in English.

No matter what I do, though, I cannot convince Word that the English is not
Japanese. I try changing the font from MSゴシック to Times New Roman, but it
won't. I try changing the language tro English, but it remains Japanese
despite the fact there are no Japanese characters.

I try these changes with single characters highlighted, just the paragraph
mark highlighted, and the entire paragraph with and without the paragraph
mark highlighted. Nothing affects the text.

What is the hidden setting that won't allow the font/language to change?
This happens periodically with some documents, though not with others.

[Stefan Blom]

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Benjamin Barrett" wrote in message
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I have a Japanese-based document that I'm re-writing in English.

No matter what I do, though, I cannot convince Word that the English
is not
Japanese. I try changing the font from MS???? to Times New Roman, but
it
won't. I try changing the language tro English, but it remains
Japanese
despite the fact there are no Japanese characters.

I try these changes with single characters highlighted, just the
paragraph
mark highlighted, and the entire paragraph with and without the
paragraph
mark highlighted. Nothing affects the text.

What is the hidden setting that won't allow the font/language to
change?
This happens periodically with some documents, though not with others.