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Spontaneous language change from English (U.S.) to French (France)
A week ago I briefly changed (via Control Panel) my Windows XP keyboard
choices to offer both English (U.S.) and French (France) keyboards, and the Language Bar. I quickly changed back to only English, deleted the French keyboard alternative, and deleted the Language Bar. Today in my Word 2003 session, the double-quote key (Shift+Quote key) keeps spontaneously changing to type a French quote mark ("sideways-chevron" with a required space). If I look in Word's Tools Language, it shows I'm in French (France) language. I have switched the default back to English (U.S.) via Tools Language several times, but it immediately switches back to French. Looking in my Windows languages/keyboards, I am only mapped to the English (U.S.) keyboard. Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks! |
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Spontaneous language change from English (U.S.) to French (France)
If you have not already done so, clear the check box for "Automatically
detect language" in Tools | Language | Set Language in Word, and see http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "rgille" wrote in message ... A week ago I briefly changed (via Control Panel) my Windows XP keyboard choices to offer both English (U.S.) and French (France) keyboards, and the Language Bar. I quickly changed back to only English, deleted the French keyboard alternative, and deleted the Language Bar. Today in my Word 2003 session, the double-quote key (Shift+Quote key) keeps spontaneously changing to type a French quote mark ("sideways-chevron" with a required space). If I look in Word's Tools Language, it shows I'm in French (France) language. I have switched the default back to English (U.S.) via Tools Language several times, but it immediately switches back to French. Looking in my Windows languages/keyboards, I am only mapped to the English (U.S.) keyboard. Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks! |
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Spontaneous language change from English (U.S.) to French (Fra
The link to cindymeister Web site was particularly helpful and good info.
Clearing the check box for "Automatically Detect Language" did not initially help. However, I eventually figured out that the problem seemed to be in one particular document - outside of the document, I was OK. I may have inadvertently switched keyboards when I fumbled typing in that document - I may have hit the keystrokes for switching keyboards. I have turned off the keyboard shortcut for that feature. Thanks! I'm also leaving the language check boxes unchecked as recommended. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you have not already done so, clear the check box for "Automatically detect language" in Tools | Language | Set Language in Word, and see http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "rgille" wrote in message ... A week ago I briefly changed (via Control Panel) my Windows XP keyboard choices to offer both English (U.S.) and French (France) keyboards, and the Language Bar. I quickly changed back to only English, deleted the French keyboard alternative, and deleted the Language Bar. Today in my Word 2003 session, the double-quote key (Shift+Quote key) keeps spontaneously changing to type a French quote mark ("sideways-chevron" with a required space). If I look in Word's Tools Language, it shows I'm in French (France) language. I have switched the default back to English (U.S.) via Tools Language several times, but it immediately switches back to French. Looking in my Windows languages/keyboards, I am only mapped to the English (U.S.) keyboard. Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks! |
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