Footnotes stuck to my keyboard's input language - how to change?

[CWannaz]

Dear all,

I have a laptop with a French keyboard, but the documents that I am
writing are in English only. It seems that the default behavior with
footnotes is to be in the keyboard's input language. It implies that, each
time I am inserting a footnote, I have to select it and set its language to
English (even when all the other footnotes are already in English). I tried
to remove French from the languages list in Word's options, to select all
footnotes (Ctrl-A) and set the language to English (I clicked also on the
option for setting up English as default), but nothing seems to lock the
language to English and I have to change the language to English each time I
enter a new footnote. Also, when I try to edit the Footnotes related entries
in the style properties, I cannot un-check the automatic language detection
that is checked and grey-ed (even if it is unchecked in Word's general
options).

Any help with that would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Cedric

 

[Stefan Blom]

Note that the "Detect language automatically" option cannot be turned off
for a specific style. Instead, clear the option via Tools | Language | Set
Language (Word 2003) or via Review tab | Set Language (Word 2007).

If it still doesn't work, change the language for the Footnote Text style.