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I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007.
She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? |
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1. Always keep "Detect language automatically" turned off. No one
knows what it actually detects, but it's not language. 2. Be sure the entire document you're spellchecking is in the Set Language it's supposed to be in -- Ctrl-A, Set Language (Review tab, third from left, bottom) to English (US) or whatever. Note that if you import so much as a single character from another document with a different Set Language, it will bring its Language with it. Especially if you download stuff. On Aug 25, 4:08*pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She *is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. *Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. *One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. *I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. *I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. *I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. *I have found out that I can change this on one document. *Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. *Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? |
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Justin,
The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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FWIW, in the command "Set Language," "set" is a verb; you are setting the
desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... 1. Always keep "Detect language automatically" turned off. No one knows what it actually detects, but it's not language. 2. Be sure the entire document you're spellchecking is in the Set Language it's supposed to be in -- Ctrl-A, Set Language (Review tab, third from left, bottom) to English (US) or whatever. Note that if you import so much as a single character from another document with a different Set Language, it will bring its Language with it. Especially if you download stuff. On Aug 25, 4:08 pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? |
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Ain't English great? You can adjectivize verbs and verb adjectives!
(And Word _still_ can't "detect language automatically.") On Aug 25, 5:41*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, in the command "Set Language," "set" is a verb; you are setting the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... 1. Always keep "Detect language automatically" turned off. No one knows what it actually detects, but it's not language. 2. Be sure the entire document you're spellchecking is in the Set Language it's supposed to be in -- Ctrl-A, Set Language (Review tab, third from left, bottom) to English (US) or whatever. Note that if you import so much as a single character from another document with a different Set Language, it will bring its Language with it. Especially if you download stuff. On Aug 25, 4:08 pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue?- |
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I can't really fault Word for not doing a great job of detecting the
language automatically. It must surely require a fair-sized sample, given the number of words that occur (not always with the same meaning) in more than one language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Ain't English great? You can adjectivize verbs and verb adjectives! (And Word _still_ can't "detect language automatically.") On Aug 25, 5:41 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, in the command "Set Language," "set" is a verb; you are setting the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... 1. Always keep "Detect language automatically" turned off. No one knows what it actually detects, but it's not language. 2. Be sure the entire document you're spellchecking is in the Set Language it's supposed to be in -- Ctrl-A, Set Language (Review tab, third from left, bottom) to English (US) or whatever. Note that if you import so much as a single character from another document with a different Set Language, it will bring its Language with it. Especially if you download stuff. On Aug 25, 4:08 pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue?- |
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All,
Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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All,
Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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All,
Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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All,
Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Justin Jayjohn" wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Any linguist (as opposed to Artificial Intelligence folk!) will tell
you that fluent computer use of human language is decades, if not centuries, away. The most unrealistic thing about *2001: A Space Odyssey* was the conversing computer HAL -- but note that it never occurred to Clarke & Kubrik that computers would be little boxes long before 2001! It's possible (not easy, but possible) to compose a passage that can be read as either Latin or Italian. No matter how good Word's proofing tools for those two languages are, what would it do? On Aug 26, 9:42*am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I can't really fault Word for not doing a great job of detecting the language automatically. It must surely require a fair-sized sample, given the number of words that occur (not always with the same meaning) in more than one language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Ain't English great? You can adjectivize verbs and verb adjectives! (And Word _still_ can't "detect language automatically.") On Aug 25, 5:41 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: FWIW, in the command "Set Language," "set" is a verb; you are setting the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... 1. Always keep "Detect language automatically" turned off. No one knows what it actually detects, but it's not language. 2. Be sure the entire document you're spellchecking is in the Set Language it's supposed to be in -- Ctrl-A, Set Language (Review tab, third from left, bottom) to English (US) or whatever. Note that if you import so much as a single character from another document with a different Set Language, it will bring its Language with it. Especially if you download stuff. On Aug 25, 4:08 pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue?-- |
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I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of
some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10*am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. *At this point, all the documents are written in English. *The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). *I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. *Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. *We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. *We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. *So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. * "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. *If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. *While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. *The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges * Do * With oStoryRng * * If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then * * * If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ * * * * *& vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ * * * * *vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then * * * * *bSetLangUS = True * * * * *Exit For * * * * .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS * * * End If * * End If * End With * Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange * Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then * For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges * * Do * * * oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS * * * Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange * * Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing * Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. *You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? *See: *http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She *is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. *Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. *One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. *I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. *I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. *I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. *I have found out that I can change this on one document. *Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. *Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - *Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org- |
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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
... Any linguist (as opposed to Artificial Intelligence folk!) will tell you that fluent computer use of human language is decades, if not centuries, away. The most unrealistic thing about *2001: A Space Odyssey* was the conversing computer HAL -- but note that it never occurred to Clarke & Kubrik that computers would be little boxes long before 2001! It's possible (not easy, but possible) to compose a passage that can be read as either Latin or Italian. No matter how good Word's proofing tools for those two languages are, what would it do? In addition to what has already been said, English isn't a "pure" language in itself. It has several dialects where words have totally different meanings depending upon usage from one dialect to another and from one geographic region to another. The best that you can do is to have proofing tools appropriate to the work that you are doing (legal, medical, engineering etc.) Even then, grammar checking will cause headaches. I would suggest as others have done; turn off grammar checking. |
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Peter,
I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org- |
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You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom
-- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01*am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. *I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. *The entire did not highlight. *It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. *I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. *I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. *Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. *At this point, all the documents are written in English. *The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). *I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. *Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. *We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. *We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. *So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. * "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. *If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. *While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. *The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro.. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges * Do * With oStoryRng * * If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then * * * If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ * * * * *& vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ * * * * *vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then * * * * *bSetLangUS = True * * * * *Exit For * * * * .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS * * * End If * * End If * End With * Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange * Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then * For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges * * Do * * * oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS * * * Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange * * Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing * Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. *You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? *See: *http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She *is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. *Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. *One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. *I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. *I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. *I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. *I have found out that I can change this on one document. *Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. *Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - *Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org-- |
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I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set
Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org-- |
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That is not the only advice ignored (Sigh).
-- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org-- |
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Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can
watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org--- |
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Peter,
I tried the steps you suggested. I did not see anything indicating the language each paragraph is using. I did not have "non-printing" turned on. I turned that on, I ran the ctrl F again. I still did not see anything indicating the language. I did notice the document has "track changes" turned on. I also noticed alot of words, sentences where "strikethrough" has been used. The document also contains some charts, text boxes........ I have been researching this issue for several weeks now.......I appreciate, any and all help to resolve this issue. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro.. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org-- |
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As I said in the last message,
Right-click on the status bar Turn on "Language" in the status bar do a search for a specific language You will see that language named in the status bar when it Finds it See what language it reports for the very next (unhighlighted) character in the document Track Changes shouldn't interfere with the language settings. On Aug 27, 3:09*pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried the steps you suggested. *I did not see anything indicating the language each paragraph is using. *I did not have "non-printing" turned on. * I turned that on, I ran the ctrl F again. *I still did not see anything indicating the language. *I did notice the document has "track changes" turned on. *I also noticed alot of words, sentences where "strikethrough" has been used. *The document also contains some charts, text boxes........ I have been researching this issue for several weeks now.......I appreciate, any and all help to resolve this issue. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. *I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. *The entire did not highlight. *It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. *I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. *I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. *Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. *At this point, all the documents are written in English. *The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). *I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. *Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. *We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. *We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. *So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. * "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. *If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. *While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. *The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro.. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges * Do * With oStoryRng * * If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then * * * If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ * * * * *& vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ * * * * *vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then * * * * *bSetLangUS = True * * * * *Exit For * * * * .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS * * * End If * * End If * End With * Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange * Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then * For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges * * Do * * * oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS * * * Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange * * Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing * Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. *You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? *See: *http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She *is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. *Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. *One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. *I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. *I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. *I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. *I have found out that I can change this on one document. *Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. *Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - *Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org--- |
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No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been
set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set standard for the document. This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a "set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired language setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org--- |
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I didn't mention "default language" -- there's no such thing. When I
say Set Language, I mean the language that's revealed when you click the Set Language button (or that's shown in the status bar). By "actual language," I mean the language you're writing in. I've edited an entire document written in English without ever noticing that the Set Language was French, because I didn't happen to type any quotation marks or colons or semicolons. (I had discovered that for some reason it was A4 size rather than letter size, but that didn't suggest it had a wrong Set Language.) Ctrl-Spacebar will switch your system to Chinese if there's the slightest chance of doing so -- not only if the Chinese IME is enabled, but also if a Chinese font is installed. I don't know whether Ctrl-Shift-Z will reset the language, but I doubt it, simply because there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a default language. On Aug 27, 4:22*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set standard for the document. This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a "set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired language setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language.. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? |
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There *is* a default language. It is the language used in Word by default,
selected by clicking the Default... button after selecting a language in the Set Language dialog. Unfortunately, it seems to be easily influenced by the language selected as the default in Windows. It will also be the default language for any document you create in Word. You can set the language for that document (or any portion of text in it) to some other language, but the one chosen as the default will be the fallback. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... I didn't mention "default language" -- there's no such thing. When I say Set Language, I mean the language that's revealed when you click the Set Language button (or that's shown in the status bar). By "actual language," I mean the language you're writing in. I've edited an entire document written in English without ever noticing that the Set Language was French, because I didn't happen to type any quotation marks or colons or semicolons. (I had discovered that for some reason it was A4 size rather than letter size, but that didn't suggest it had a wrong Set Language.) Ctrl-Spacebar will switch your system to Chinese if there's the slightest chance of doing so -- not only if the Chinese IME is enabled, but also if a Chinese font is installed. I don't know whether Ctrl-Shift-Z will reset the language, but I doubt it, simply because there doesn't seem to be such a thing as a default language. On Aug 27, 4:22 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set standard for the document. This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a "set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired language setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? |
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Unless you insist on having the last word you should consider this:
"With Daniels, it is his belief in his own infallibility that is so irritating. Even when obviously wrong he continues his arguments." An anonymous observation proven over and over again right here in this group. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: There *is* a default language. It is the language used in Word by default, selected by clicking the Default... button after selecting a language in the Set Language dialog. Unfortunately, it seems to be easily influenced by the language selected as the default in Windows. It will also be the default language for any document you create in Word. You can set the language for that document (or any portion of text in it) to some other language, but the one chosen as the default will be the fallback. On Aug 27, 4:22 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set standard for the document. This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a "set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired language setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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The observation was not "anonymous," and it's possible that the person who
made it (in a private, NDA-covered NG) might prefer not to have it aired here. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Unless you insist on having the last word you should consider this: "With Daniels, it is his belief in his own infallibility that is so irritating. Even when obviously wrong he continues his arguments." An anonymous observation proven over and over again right here in this group. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: There *is* a default language. It is the language used in Word by default, selected by clicking the Default... button after selecting a language in the Set Language dialog. Unfortunately, it seems to be easily influenced by the language selected as the default in Windows. It will also be the default language for any document you create in Word. You can set the language for that document (or any portion of text in it) to some other language, but the one chosen as the default will be the fallback. On Aug 27, 4:22 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set standard for the document. This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a "set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired language setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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It is anonymous to the Mr. D and unless blind the person that made it has
seen it aired here several times. What is your point? Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The observation was not "anonymous," and it's possible that the person who made it (in a private, NDA-covered NG) might prefer not to have it aired here. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Unless you insist on having the last word you should consider this: "With Daniels, it is his belief in his own infallibility that is so irritating. Even when obviously wrong he continues his arguments." An anonymous observation proven over and over again right here in this group. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: There *is* a default language. It is the language used in Word by default, selected by clicking the Default... button after selecting a language in the Set Language dialog. Unfortunately, it seems to be easily influenced by the language selected as the default in Windows. It will also be the default language for any document you create in Word. You can set the language for that document (or any portion of text in it) to some other language, but the one chosen as the default will be the fallback. On Aug 27, 4:22 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set standard for the document. This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a "set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired language setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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To add to this, sometimes getting the proofing language to display on the
status bar for the current text is difficult. If you turn on the Language option for the status bar you also need to have more than one language enabled in order for it to actually display and you need to exit and restart Word. If after you exit and restart Word the proofing language still doesn't display on the status bar then you may need to close all Office applications and start Word again. Failing that, try restarting your computer. But once it does finally appear it will stay unless you return to a single enabled proofing language . :-) ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... As I said in the last message, Right-click on the status bar Turn on "Language" in the status bar do a search for a specific language You will see that language named in the status bar when it Finds it See what language it reports for the very next (unhighlighted) character in the document Track Changes shouldn't interfere with the language settings. On Aug 27, 3:09 pm, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried the steps you suggested. I did not see anything indicating the language each paragraph is using. I did not have "non-printing" turned on. I turned that on, I ran the ctrl F again. I still did not see anything indicating the language. I did notice the document has "track changes" turned on. I also noticed alot of words, sentences where "strikethrough" has been used. The document also contains some charts, text boxes........ I have been researching this issue for several weeks now.......I appreciate, any and all help to resolve this issue. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro.. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org--- |
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Greg & Suzanne,
I was not ignoring your advice. I am using the web to view these forums. I just now found your additional replies to my problem. I have tried everything with set language. I can get the issue corrected with document a, for example. As soon as the user is emailed another document, the process starts all over again. She runs grammar check, she gets prompted for different language packs. "Greg Maxey" wrote: It is anonymous to the Mr. D and unless blind the person that made it has seen it aired here several times. What is your point? Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The observation was not "anonymous," and it's possible that the person who made it (in a private, NDA-covered NG) might prefer not to have it aired here. "Greg Maxey" wrote in message ... Unless you insist on having the last word you should consider this: "With Daniels, it is his belief in his own infallibility that is so irritating. Even when obviously wrong he continues his arguments." An anonymous observation proven over and over again right here in this group. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: There *is* a default language. It is the language used in Word by default, selected by clicking the Default... button after selecting a language in the Set Language dialog. Unfortunately, it seems to be easily influenced by the language selected as the default in Windows. It will also be the default language for any document you create in Word. You can set the language for that document (or any portion of text in it) to some other language, but the one chosen as the default will be the fallback. On Aug 27, 4:22 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, the language of the document may differ from the language that has been set as the Word default, but the language of any given text is just the language that is applied; there is no way to set the default language of a given document: all you can do is select text (all or some of it) and set a specific language that will be applied to it. The language at the insertion point can vary, but it varies only from the text around it, not from any set standard for the document. This is quibbling, of course, but I think that implying that there is a "set" or default language for a document is deceptive because a different language can ride in on a single pasted character and spread like wildfire if you continue typing from that point. Moreover, I'm not sure that these unwanted language settings can be removed even by selecting text and pressing Ctrl+Spacebar (though this *should* work); one must be constantly vigilant and periodically select all the text and reapply the desired language setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... Once you've set the language, it becomes the set language -- you can watch the pot, but "a watched pot never boils." It's just a quirk of the word "set" and a few others that the past participle (adjectival) form is the same as the basic verb form. The actual language of the document (for instance, English) can differ from the Set Language of the document -- and you might not notice until you type quotation marks and get guillemets or a pair of commas (French and German behavior respectively), or a (semi)colon and get a nonbreaking space before it (French). On Aug 27, 12:32 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I see you're choosing to ignore my advice about the syntax of "Set Language." It is the same as "Set AutoShape Defaults," i.e., click this button to set the defaults; use this dialog to set the desired language. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in ... You can see the current Set Language in your status bar at the bottom -- right-click on the status bar and turn on the Language option (9th from the top). Maybe the paragraph marks themselves are formatted with a different Set Language?? Maybe there are some spaces at the ends of paragraphs that are formatted with a different language?? (You do have Non-Printing Characters showing, don't you? Ctrl- Shift-8.) On Aug 27, 11:01 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Beth,
I notice your an Office MVP. Have you come across the issue of owa wanting to open 2007 attachments as zip files. "Beth Melton" wrote: If the content selected by paragraph then as Peter suggested, it could be hiding a empty paragraph mark used for creating the space between documents. Based on your description that's what it sounds like. Although Greg's advice, "You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah" should have rectified the problem in the main document. Did you try this? In the event you aren't sure of the steps to perform for the "blah blah" portion of the instructions here they a After pressing Ctrl+A to select the entire document: - On the Review tab, click Set Language - In the Language dialog box, select your preferred proofing language - Click OK. If you want to put this to rest and email me your document I can take a look at it for you and see if I can remove the erroneous language. To obtain a valid email address remove NoSpam4Me from ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Justin Jayjohn" wrote in message ... Peter, I tried your recommendations about see if some font within the document could be a different language. I did the ctrl F and followed your instructions. The entire did not highlight. It did highlight like a paragraph at a time. I did not see anywhere, anything stating about what language the font was. I was not sure if that meant all the font was English. Did I do something incorrectly...... "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: I can tell you at least that it isn't the font (unless characters of some non-Roman font that's associated with just one language have somehow gotten in). If you type a Roman-alphabet letter with an accent on it, even if it's associated with just one specific language (and there aren't many of those!), Word won't assign a language to it. A way to check if some errant language has been assigned to a bit of text is to Find your base language (English (US) or whatever) -- Ctrl- F, More Format Language -- click Find Next, and if the entire document isn't selected, see what language it shows for the first character after the end of the selection. Then that would be a clue to where the other language came from. On Aug 26, 10:10 am, Justin Jayjohn wrote: All, Thank you for the replies. At this point, all the documents are written in English. The documents are large contracts (several pages....upwards of 100 +). I was wondering if some font in the document could be causing the problem. Some of these documents could have been created with word 2003 then opened with word 07 modified and resaved. We tried taking a document that was word 03, copied pasted into new word 07. We saved the document then try grammar check, got the same result. So how I can I get all our machines to open these documents correctly. "Greg Maxey" wrote: Justin, The problem is mixed languages in the document. If those languages are not enabled and available then you see those messages. You can set the language to USEnglish or whatever by pressing CTRL+A, blah, blah but that action only addresses the languages in the main text of the troublesome document. While perhaps unlikely, the offending language set could be in one of several other document layers (e.g., headers or footers, textboxes, footnotes, etc.). Then there is the possibility that you process hundereds or thousands of these documents. The laborious process of setting the language manaully could become very tiresome. While scorned by some in this forum, you could always use a macro. Sub SetLanguageNailMeetsTheHammer() Dim oStoryRng As Word.Range Dim bSetLangUS As Boolean bSetLangUS = False For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do With oStoryRng If .LanguageID = 9999999 Then If MsgBox("This is a mixed language document." _ & vbCr + vbCr & " Do you want to set the language to US English?", _ vbQuestion + vbYesNo, "Mixed Language Detected") = vbYes Then bSetLangUS = True Exit For .LanguageID = wdEnglishUS End If End If End With Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng If bSetLangUS Then For Each oStoryRng In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges Do oStoryRng.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS Set oStoryRng = oStoryRng.NextStoryRange Loop Until oStoryRng Is Nothing Next oStoryRng End If End Sub The name of the macro is abritary. You could run it on individual documents or include the script in an AutoOpen macro stored in the template so it would run automatically whenever a document is opened. Need help with macros? See: http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Justin Jayjohn wrote: I have a user that is having issues with grammar check & word 2007. She is having the issue related to contract documents she is to prepare etc. Every time she runs spell check on one of these documents, she is getting the message a language pack needs installed. One time it might ask for french, another time brazil.. She gets these documents from several different users. I even loaded one of the documents on my computer, ran spell check got the same message. I also sent this document to the rest of my team, most people were prompted for the brazil language pack. I originally tried removing the "detect language automatically" option that was checked. I have found out that I can change this on one document. Another document can have this box checked. I performed the following trouble shooting to this point: -ran detect/repair -ran chkdsk /f - to fix any file corruption -defragged the hard drive -installed office sp2 and updates -completed reinstalled the entire Office 2007 suite None of the above steps have worked to resolve this issue. Does anyone have any other ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue? -- Greg Maxey - Word MVP My web sitehttp://gregmaxey.mvps.org Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org- |
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The new Office 2007 file formats are actually compressed xml files. You can
append the file name with .zip and open and view the content in the Windows Explorer or your favorite compression utility outside the application. Speaking of compression utilities, I'd say that's what's causing the attachment issue you are encountering. The utility recognizes it's a zip file based on the content, rather than the file extension, and is trying to open it. btw, did you get your language issue resolved? I'm still happy to take a look at your file for you. :-) ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Justin Jayjohn" wrote in message ... Beth, I notice your an Office MVP. Have you come across the issue of owa wanting to open 2007 attachments as zip files. |
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Beth,
I am still working on both problems (2007 word grammar check & owa & 2007 attachments). What is the best way for us to communicate. Continue posting replies or should I send you an email about both issues I am currently trying to resolve. "Beth Melton" wrote: The new Office 2007 file formats are actually compressed xml files. You can append the file name with .zip and open and view the content in the Windows Explorer or your favorite compression utility outside the application. Speaking of compression utilities, I'd say that's what's causing the attachment issue you are encountering. The utility recognizes it's a zip file based on the content, rather than the file extension, and is trying to open it. btw, did you get your language issue resolved? I'm still happy to take a look at your file for you. :-) ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Justin Jayjohn" wrote in message ... Beth, I notice your an Office MVP. Have you come across the issue of owa wanting to open 2007 attachments as zip files. |
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The best way to communicate, and one that will benefit everyone, is to
continue the discussion in the thread. There may be others interested in the attachments discussion and the outcome of the grammar issues. Plus these threads can be searched using Google and it may help someone in the future. :-) For the grammar check issue you can email a sample document to (Remove NoSpam4Me to obtain a valid email address). I'll take a look at it and send you back a copy with corrections (if I find something) and post a response back to this thread. ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Justin Jayjohn" wrote in message ... Beth, I am still working on both problems (2007 word grammar check & owa & 2007 attachments). What is the best way for us to communicate. Continue posting replies or should I send you an email about both issues I am currently trying to resolve. "Beth Melton" wrote: The new Office 2007 file formats are actually compressed xml files. You can append the file name with .zip and open and view the content in the Windows Explorer or your favorite compression utility outside the application. Speaking of compression utilities, I'd say that's what's causing the attachment issue you are encountering. The utility recognizes it's a zip file based on the content, rather than the file extension, and is trying to open it. btw, did you get your language issue resolved? I'm still happy to take a look at your file for you. :-) ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Justin Jayjohn" wrote in message ... Beth, I notice your an Office MVP. Have you come across the issue of owa wanting to open 2007 attachments as zip files. |
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Beth,
I will need to hold off on sending you a document for now. I cannot go into any details. However, I just got a call from another user yesterday complaining about the same issue. But, this user had a one page letter maybe 2 paragraphs at the most. The user ran spell check; the document was showing that €śFrench€ť was the default when it actually was not. I was able to recreate this issue. I opened the same one page document, changed the date, and ran spell check. I got the same notification as the user. We are now seeing this issue since we moved everyone from Office 2003 to Office 2007. We did not have this issue before. I had opened another post about owa and 2007 attachments. No one has replied to that post. I will give you more details. I have 2 computers, setup exactly the same. Both have XP SP3, office 2007 with compatibility pack installed, same version of IE, winzip etc. Basically they are both configured exactly the same. On one machine I can open 2007 attachments no problems. I right click on the attachment, from owa, the file will open as a word, excel etc. On the other machine, I right click to open. I get the window to save the file to my machine, the file shows as a zip file. So I save the file to my machine, when I try to open the file. I cannot open the excel document, the zip file looks like html doc etc. We are now seeing some machines in our network will open the attachments okay. Other machines want to save the files as a zip file. "Beth Melton" wrote: The best way to communicate, and one that will benefit everyone, is to continue the discussion in the thread. There may be others interested in the attachments discussion and the outcome of the grammar issues. Plus these threads can be searched using Google and it may help someone in the future. :-) For the grammar check issue you can email a sample document to (Remove NoSpam4Me to obtain a valid email address). I'll take a look at it and send you back a copy with corrections (if I find something) and post a response back to this thread. ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Justin Jayjohn" wrote in message ... Beth, I am still working on both problems (2007 word grammar check & owa & 2007 attachments). What is the best way for us to communicate. Continue posting replies or should I send you an email about both issues I am currently trying to resolve. "Beth Melton" wrote: The new Office 2007 file formats are actually compressed xml files. You can append the file name with .zip and open and view the content in the Windows Explorer or your favorite compression utility outside the application. Speaking of compression utilities, I'd say that's what's causing the attachment issue you are encountering. The utility recognizes it's a zip file based on the content, rather than the file extension, and is trying to open it. btw, did you get your language issue resolved? I'm still happy to take a look at your file for you. :-) ~Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP "Justin Jayjohn" wrote in message ... Beth, I notice your an Office MVP. Have you come across the issue of owa wanting to open 2007 attachments as zip files. |
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