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Word 2003 spontaneously changes language on specific text
Working with a large document ( 400 pages) written by many authors over
several years. Broke file into pieces and am now putting those pieces back together again in a new file. Track changes is enabled. For reasons that elude me, the language selection for specific text (sometimes paragraphs, sometimes words/phrases, sometimes table cells) spontaneously changes from English to another language (e.g., German) or from another language (e.g., French or German) back to English. It doesn't happen on everything, only on the same specific text again (and again and again). One place this is happening is at the start of the document which has the word "Contents", a blank line, then the TOC. The formatting codes at the start of the file start with the Contents line and cover about 15 of the first 30 lines in the 3 level TOC. This happens without updating the TOC, adding/deleting anything on the referenced pages, etc. I've tried clearing formatting and then reselecting my styles, but that doesn't stop this behavior. Thanks for your help. |
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Word 2003 spontaneously changes language on specific text
Did you select the entire document (Ctrl-A) and Set Language to, say,
US English? (Tools Language Set Language) Maybe some of the pieces were written by authors in other countries with different default language settings. Maybe that really annoying "Detect language automatically?" thing is turned on. On Nov 12, 2:27*pm, CAP wrote: Working with a large document ( 400 pages) written by many authors over several years. Broke file into pieces and am now putting those pieces back together again in a new file. Track changes is enabled. For reasons that elude me, the language selection for specific text (sometimes paragraphs, sometimes words/phrases, sometimes table cells) spontaneously changes from English to another language (e.g., German) or from another language (e.g., French or German) back to English.. It doesn't happen on everything, only on the same specific text again (and again and again). One place this is happening is at the start of the document which has the word "Contents", a blank line, then the TOC. The formatting codes at the start of the file start with the Contents line and cover about 15 of the first 30 lines in the 3 level TOC. This happens without updating the TOC, adding/deleting anything on the referenced pages, etc. I've tried clearing formatting and then reselecting my styles, but that doesn't stop this behavior. Thanks for your help. |
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Word 2003 spontaneously changes language on specific text
Grammatim,
Thanks for responding. I have selected the entire document and set the language to US English. Then, I changed specific things to other languages. "Detect language automatically" is enabled and the strange updates appeared to stop when I purposely disabled that (it is hard to tell for sure since my doc is so large). What is driving me crazy is that some of the things which I have intentionally set to German, French or Spanish spontaneously change back to English and some things that I have intentionally (and repeatedly) set to English are changing (generally, to French). The TOC part of that is really annoying. Thanks, CAP "grammatim" wrote: Did you select the entire document (Ctrl-A) and Set Language to, say, US English? (Tools Language Set Language) Maybe some of the pieces were written by authors in other countries with different default language settings. Maybe that really annoying "Detect language automatically?" thing is turned on. On Nov 12, 2:27 pm, CAP wrote: Working with a large document ( 400 pages) written by many authors over several years. Broke file into pieces and am now putting those pieces back together again in a new file. Track changes is enabled. For reasons that elude me, the language selection for specific text (sometimes paragraphs, sometimes words/phrases, sometimes table cells) spontaneously changes from English to another language (e.g., German) or from another language (e.g., French or German) back to English.. It doesn't happen on everything, only on the same specific text again (and again and again). One place this is happening is at the start of the document which has the word "Contents", a blank line, then the TOC. The formatting codes at the start of the file start with the Contents line and cover about 15 of the first 30 lines in the 3 level TOC. This happens without updating the TOC, adding/deleting anything on the referenced pages, etc. I've tried clearing formatting and then reselecting my styles, but that doesn't stop this behavior. Thanks for your help. |
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