Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#1
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Why does Word '03 sometimes spell-check in French?
I manage an office where we use Word 2003 as the front end for a medical
transcription application. The custom dictionary as well as a medical dictionary are installed. Sometimes (not very often ... just often enough to be irritating), when running spell-check, it will just start to spell check in French. In other words, medical terms that have been saved to the custom dictionary are not recognized, and suggestions are offered that have lots of accent characters (such as codeiné instead of codeine). You can tell from the title bar of the spell checker that it's using a French dictionary. If I didnt' mention it, we are in the US and use English. I have no idea why this happens, but it's quite random and I've been seeing it happen for several years and on several different PCs. Any ideas why this happens and how it can be avoided? Thanks, -- -abs |
#2
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Why does Word '03 sometimes spell-check in French?
Do you have automatic language detection enabled? If so, try turning it off.
In the "Language" dialog, ensure that "Detect language automatically" is not selected. Yves "absinthe" wrote in message ... I manage an office where we use Word 2003 as the front end for a medical transcription application. The custom dictionary as well as a medical dictionary are installed. Sometimes (not very often ... just often enough to be irritating), when running spell-check, it will just start to spell check in French. In other words, medical terms that have been saved to the custom dictionary are not recognized, and suggestions are offered that have lots of accent characters (such as codeiné instead of codeine). You can tell from the title bar of the spell checker that it's using a French dictionary. If I didnt' mention it, we are in the US and use English. I have no idea why this happens, but it's quite random and I've been seeing it happen for several years and on several different PCs. Any ideas why this happens and how it can be avoided? Thanks, -- -abs |
#3
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Why does Word '03 sometimes spell-check in French?
Hi abs,
The spellchecker checks spelling according to the language that is set for the part of the document that it is checking. If you want to diagnose the problem, the next time that this happens, stop the spellchecker, and place the cursor at the point where the foreign (French) suggestions were made. Then on the Tools menu, point to Language, and click Set Language. The language that is set for that location in the document will be highlighted in the Language dialog box. The next step in preventing this from happening would be to figure out how text with the language set to French got into the document. There are a number of possibilities. The automatic detection that Yves mentioned is one possibility. If you do what I described in the previous paragraph and find that the language is set to anything other than US English or not set at all, the following steps will solve the problem for the particular document. 1) Press Ctrl+A to select all the text in the body of the document. 2) On the Tools menu, point to Language, and click Set Language. In the Language dialog box, select US English, make sure that the Detect language automatically check box is not selected, and click OK. If there are footnotes in the document, you will need to repeat these steps in the footnotes. -- Hope this helps, Pesach Shelnitz "Yves Dhondt" wrote: Do you have automatic language detection enabled? If so, try turning it off. In the "Language" dialog, ensure that "Detect language automatically" is not selected. Yves "absinthe" wrote in message ... I manage an office where we use Word 2003 as the front end for a medical transcription application. The custom dictionary as well as a medical dictionary are installed. Sometimes (not very often ... just often enough to be irritating), when running spell-check, it will just start to spell check in French. In other words, medical terms that have been saved to the custom dictionary are not recognized, and suggestions are offered that have lots of accent characters (such as codeiné instead of codeine). You can tell from the title bar of the spell checker that it's using a French dictionary. If I didnt' mention it, we are in the US and use English. I have no idea why this happens, but it's quite random and I've been seeing it happen for several years and on several different PCs. Any ideas why this happens and how it can be avoided? Thanks, -- -abs |
#4
Posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
|
|||
|
|||
Why does Word '03 sometimes spell-check in French?
Thanks for these helpful replies. It turns out that "Detect language
automatically" *was* in fact enabled. I've changed that, so hopefully that will be the end of that. Thanks! -- -abs "Pesach Shelnitz" wrote: Hi abs, The spellchecker checks spelling according to the language that is set for the part of the document that it is checking. If you want to diagnose the problem, the next time that this happens, stop the spellchecker, and place the cursor at the point where the foreign (French) suggestions were made. Then on the Tools menu, point to Language, and click Set Language. The language that is set for that location in the document will be highlighted in the Language dialog box. The next step in preventing this from happening would be to figure out how text with the language set to French got into the document. There are a number of possibilities. The automatic detection that Yves mentioned is one possibility. If you do what I described in the previous paragraph and find that the language is set to anything other than US English or not set at all, the following steps will solve the problem for the particular document. 1) Press Ctrl+A to select all the text in the body of the document. 2) On the Tools menu, point to Language, and click Set Language. In the Language dialog box, select US English, make sure that the Detect language automatically check box is not selected, and click OK. If there are footnotes in the document, you will need to repeat these steps in the footnotes. -- Hope this helps, Pesach Shelnitz "Yves Dhondt" wrote: Do you have automatic language detection enabled? If so, try turning it off. In the "Language" dialog, ensure that "Detect language automatically" is not selected. Yves "absinthe" wrote in message ... I manage an office where we use Word 2003 as the front end for a medical transcription application. The custom dictionary as well as a medical dictionary are installed. Sometimes (not very often ... just often enough to be irritating), when running spell-check, it will just start to spell check in French. In other words, medical terms that have been saved to the custom dictionary are not recognized, and suggestions are offered that have lots of accent characters (such as codeiné instead of codeine). You can tell from the title bar of the spell checker that it's using a French dictionary. If I didnt' mention it, we are in the US and use English. I have no idea why this happens, but it's quite random and I've been seeing it happen for several years and on several different PCs. Any ideas why this happens and how it can be avoided? Thanks, -- -abs |
Reply |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Evil French Spell Check | Microsoft Word Help | |||
When I get docs to review my spell check comes up in French! | Microsoft Word Help | |||
How can I get german and french spell check for WORD XP Home editi | Microsoft Word Help | |||
install french spell-check Word | Microsoft Word Help | |||
son in boston needs to install french spell check grammer in word. | Microsoft Word Help |