Spellcheck language keeps changing as I check!

[Guest]

Thought I could just spend an hour or so scanning and OCRing a few pages
from a botany book: HO HO!

I had to give up.

As fast as I could add the latin words to the dictionary, the spellchecker
kept swinging from English to French and to Spanish. It does not matter
what the default is set to: it does not take any notice if 'automatic
language recognition' is deselected!

Is this some sicko virus writer's idea of a joke, or is it a bug in our
version of Word (2002 SP3)?

Help!

Regards,

S

 

[Guest]

Have further investigated and discovered another place where the automatic
language detection tick box lurks:

in the Formatting /Normal/Modify dialogue the option is ticked and greyed
out!
I am administrator, and have added my own user ID with full permissions, and
taken Ownership too, but the option still remains greyed out!

Grrrr!

S

 

[Tomcat]

It's of no help to you, of course, but I get exacly the same problem with
Word 2003. I can be in the middle of a document and the laguange changes
from English to UK, sometimes to English US, but often to French - once or
twice to othre languages, which I've forgotten - maybe it was Spanish, on
reflection.
It's really annoying and can be confusing until you spot what has happened.

I hope someone comes up with a 'reason why'...
Tomcat

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the backup Tomcat: today I even noticed that some of the hotmail
e-mail site was coming out in French - but there may have been a local
problem at the time as I could not download my hotmail either, but it is
coming through ok at the moment.

Any more advice from the 'Techies' out there: especially on how to get the
Normal template format options to ungrey out the 'choose language
automatically' box?

Salut!
Gracias!

S

 

[Stefan Blom]

See the following article:

Get control of language formatting in Word
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the handy article link Stefan,

I had not been aware that there were more settings under 'Office Tools' -
nor indeed that there was an 'Office Tools' as it does not show up as a
folder in Windows Explorer, only in the Start menu programmes which I rarely
look at!

The Office Tool language settings did indeed have French and Spanish enabled
in addition to the UK English default, and I have removed these as per the
article instructions. However, I would have liked to be able to check
spellings in these languages from time to time, so it is a bit of a 'bodge'
to disable them completely.

The article tells us to turn off all the automatic language formatting
options, but does not mention the WORD: 'formatting and
styles'/Normal/modify/format/'detect language automatically' tick box, that
is still ticked and still greyed out on our system.

How can I 'ungrey' this nuisance setting, and why is it greyed out in the
first place?

Cheers,

S

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't believe you need to disable these other languages, just make sure
that the correct default is set for Windows (and turn off auto detection).

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note also that existing documents may not work correctly unless
recreated as explained in the last section of
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


in message

 

[Guest]

Thankyou Suzanne,

But as I said: I can't turn off automatic recognition because in the
Word/Format/Normal/Modify/Format dialogue there is a box which is ticked for
automatic recognition but it is greyed out and nobody can tell me how to get
it ungreyed!

And Stefan: I have read the article carefully and followed all the measures
therein, but the dialogue remains ticked and greyed out.

Where is the dialogue by which I can take back the right to tick this box or
not for myself?

Regards,

S

 

[Stefan Blom]

I believe the option is greyed out simply because the setting isn't
applicable to styles; that it appears to be checked means nothing (I see
it too). Just turn it off in Tools | Language | Set Language.