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Default Help: How to Configure Word So That It Only Recognizes English

Hi:

I had added some French names to my CV which is a long document in Word 2007
with all updates installed. It keeps recognizing ENGLISH words as French
and flagging them as mispelled. I removed French as a language in the Word
options. I right click on the word and set the language to English so that
when I right click again it shows the word as English. However, when I
right click to see the recommend spelling, the French spelling still appears
and the English word is flagged as mispelled.

I want to prevent this from happening ever again in any document and remove
any French recognition from my existing document, but it seems to be a
recurring problem in Word 2007.

Please help, because I find this to be a rather irritating probleme.

Thanks in advance,

Pete


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Default Help: How to Configure Word So That It Only Recognizes English

Select the whole document (Ctrl+A). Then go to reviewing ribbon proofing
group set language icon. In the dialog, set the language you want and, the
there is a check in the box before "detect language automatically", clear it.
Also make sure that none of the styles you use has the language set to other
than the variety of English you use. If the problem shows up in new
documents, you'll need to do the same thing in normal.dotm.

HTH--
Pam

Peter de B. Harrington wrote:
Hi:

I had added some French names to my CV which is a long document in Word 2007
with all updates installed. It keeps recognizing ENGLISH words as French
and flagging them as mispelled. I removed French as a language in the Word
options. I right click on the word and set the language to English so that
when I right click again it shows the word as English. However, when I
right click to see the recommend spelling, the French spelling still appears
and the English word is flagged as mispelled.

I want to prevent this from happening ever again in any document and remove
any French recognition from my existing document, but it seems to be a
recurring problem in Word 2007.

Please help, because I find this to be a rather irritating probleme.

Thanks in advance,

Pete


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