English and Spanish to be available in MS Office 2007

[Javster095]

In the Microsoft Office Language Settings 2007 options in Outlook… I have
enabled editing languages to Spanish (Mexico, Spain and United States). For
example, when I compose; reply or forward an email and when I type “Buenos
diasâ€â€¦ the “dias†has a squiggly red line underneath the word (dias). When I
right click on word “dias†along with the squiggly red line underneath… my
options are in English. I would like English and Spanish to be available in
the list. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Todd Mathison [MSFT]]

You can't display English and Spanish spelling options in the right-click
list at the same time, but there are several possible solutions for your
problem:

- If you added Spanish in Office Language Settings recently, close all of
your Outlook windows, then start Outlook again. Some Office features read
the language settings when the program boots, not when the settings are
changed.

- Office can often identify which language you are typing in, but it needs a
sample of text before it can recognize that you have switched languages. If
you type a full sentence of Spanish, then Office should figure out which
language you're writing in, and show the correct spelling options in the
spell-checker.

- If that doesn't work, then click on "Spelling..." in the right-click menu
or press F7.
In the Spelling dialog:
- Click on the dropdown for Dictionary Language. Are there several
Spanish dictionaries listed? If not, then you need to install the Spanish
dictionary files ("Proofing Tools") for Office. The English version of
Office 2007 includes Spanish and French dictionary files on the installation
CD/DVD.

- If none of these other suggestions work, and the Spanish dictionaries are
listed in the "Dictionary Language" dropdown, then select the Spanish
dictionary to see Spanish spelling suggestions or English to see English
spelling suggestions.

- Another option: if you mostly work in English and occasionally need to
type a few words of Spanish, then type your Spanish text, select it, and
click on "Set Language" under the "Proofing" section of the Ribbon. You can
use the "Set Language" dialog to explicitly tell Office what language your
text is in.

Let us know if you continue to have problems with the Spanish/English
language detection.

-- Todd