[Claire Wilson-Thomas]

I am using Word 2007 to produce documents in both UK and US English. I have
US English set as my default. I set up an UK English document template to set
UK paper size and UK dictionary as default. When I opened a new document
based on this template, the dictionary was set to US English. How can I
achieve my goal?

Claire W-T

[Cindy M.]

Hi ?B?Q2xhaXJlIFdpbHNvbi1UaG9tYXM=?=,

I am using Word 2007 to produce documents in both UK and US English. I have
US English set as my default. I set up an UK English document template to set
UK paper size and UK dictionary as default. When I opened a new document
based on this template, the dictionary was set to US English. How can I
achieve my goal?

Ten years ago, the Word team decided that Word should use the WINDOWS default
language, so that's where the problem is starting from. We've complained about
it for ten years, and nothing has changed sigh

The way Microsoft wants you to go is to change the Windows language (usually by
changing the "input language").

Personally, I think your approach is more correct, but to get it to work you
have to type at least one character into the template. This will prevent Word
from overriding the template's language (as direct formatting!) when the new
document is created.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Claire Wilson-Thomas]

Thank you! I have tested this and it does work. Claire W-T

"Cindy M." wrote:

Hi ?B?Q2xhaXJlIFdpbHNvbi1UaG9tYXM=?=,

I am using Word 2007 to produce documents in both UK and US English. I have
US English set as my default. I set up an UK English document template to set
UK paper size and UK dictionary as default. When I opened a new document
based on this template, the dictionary was set to US English. How can I
achieve my goal?

Ten years ago, the Word team decided that Word should use the WINDOWS default
language, so that's where the problem is starting from. We've complained about
it for ten years, and nothing has changed sigh

The way Microsoft wants you to go is to change the Windows language (usually by
changing the "input language").

Personally, I think your approach is more correct, but to get it to work you
have to type at least one character into the template. This will prevent Word
from overriding the template's language (as direct formatting!) when the new
document is created.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply
in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)