I didn't do anything to my Word settings and all of a sudden Word spellcheck
was getting checked in Spanish, which causes everything to appear mispelled
since I am English (U.S.). I try to change the dictionary default from
spanish to English but every time I do it returns it to Spanish. I even tried
reinstalling Word but it still changes the dictionary.

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Internet_Probs" wrote in message
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I didn't do anything to my Word settings and all of a sudden Word
spellcheck
was getting checked in Spanish, which causes everything to appear
mispelled
since I am English (U.S.). I try to change the dictionary default from
spanish to English but every time I do it returns it to Spanish. I even
tried
reinstalling Word but it still changes the dictionary.

Thank you. I fixed that but the problem is I cannot get my current document
to stay on the english setting. Even after I follow the steps on the link
provided the current document does not remain on the english setting. It
continues to reset itself to English every time I set it back. When I open
new documents, however, the language is set for English.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Internet_Probs" wrote in message
...
I didn't do anything to my Word settings and all of a sudden Word
spellcheck
was getting checked in Spanish, which causes everything to appear
mispelled
since I am English (U.S.). I try to change the dictionary default from
spanish to English but every time I do it returns it to Spanish. I even
tried
reinstalling Word but it still changes the dictionary.

Hi Internet_Probs,

A long time ago I had the same problem - but with Dutch. I cannot remember
exactly what the solution was, but it was located at the start of the
document. Check the language setting for the first word, remove anything at
the start of the document that has hidden format and a different language
setting... something like that.

Good luck,
Cooz
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"Internet_Probs" wrote:

Thank you. I fixed that but the problem is I cannot get my current document
to stay on the english setting. Even after I follow the steps on the link
provided the current document does not remain on the english setting. It
continues to reset itself to English every time I set it back. When I open
new documents, however, the language is set for English.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Internet_Probs" wrote in message
...
I didn't do anything to my Word settings and all of a sudden Word
spellcheck
was getting checked in Spanish, which causes everything to appear
mispelled
since I am English (U.S.). I try to change the dictionary default from
spanish to English but every time I do it returns it to Spanish. I even
tried
reinstalling Word but it still changes the dictionary.

Did you disable "Automatically detect language"? Have you changed the
defaults both in Windows and in Word? Be aware that if you paste in text
formatted in another language, the language formatting at the insertion
point will change; language is a font property that can be applied to even a
single character.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Internet_Probs" wrote in message
...
Thank you. I fixed that but the problem is I cannot get my current
document
to stay on the english setting. Even after I follow the steps on the link
provided the current document does not remain on the english setting. It
continues to reset itself to English every time I set it back. When I open
new documents, however, the language is set for English.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Internet_Probs" wrote in
message
...
I didn't do anything to my Word settings and all of a sudden Word
spellcheck
was getting checked in Spanish, which causes everything to appear
mispelled
since I am English (U.S.). I try to change the dictionary default from
spanish to English but every time I do it returns it to Spanish. I
even
tried
reinstalling Word but it still changes the dictionary.