Language keeps switching to Czech no matter what I try

[Murph3g]

For some reason my Word program keeps switching my default language to
Czech despite the fact that I have never used this language before
ever. I have tried manually changing the language back to English (US)
and have tried going through Format>Style and nothing seems to work.
If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I'm working on an
important paper in which i need to use quotation marks, but apparently
Czech quotation marks are different from US ones. I have no idea how
to solve this problem, and I am not much of a computer person, so the
simpler the explanation the better. thank you!

 

[Murph3g]

For some reason my Word program keeps switching my default language to
Czech despite the fact that I have never used this language before
ever. I have tried manually changing the language back to English (US)
and have tried going through Format>Style and nothing seems to work.
If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I'm working on an
important paper in which i need to use quotation marks, but apparently
Czech quotation marks are different from US ones. I have no idea how
to solve this problem, and I am not much of a computer person, so the
simpler the explanation the better. thank you!

PS I'm using Word for Mac 2004 on a Mac OS X v 10.4 Tiger Macbook

 

[little_creature]

Hiya,
What I would try is to change tools„language>English>Default in your normal
template or any other template your document is based on. Do you know, what
I mean?
Second thing where to look would be setting of your system in system
preferences>international>formats.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hiya,
What I would try is to change tools„language>English>Default in your normal
template or any other template your document is based on. Do you know, what
I mean?
Second thing where to look would be setting of your system in system
preferences>international>formats.

....and the third thing is to look at the style definitions for the
styles in use. Each of those can have a language property too, and I
think they win over normal and prefs styles.

 

[Murph3g]

Daiya,
So far I've only noticed this problem in one document and it just
started to happen yesterday. (I've worked on the document before and
never had a problem and I worked on another paper in another language
and had no problem). Do you think it is isolated to this one document?
I have tried changing the default language in the tools menu about 100
times and it will switch back to Czech by itself after I start typing
again. It's also making it so I can't use my thesauras. Thanks
Lisa

 

[Hylton Boothroyd]

For some reason my Word program keeps switching my default language to
Czech despite the fact that I have never used this language before
ever.

It's possible that the reason is nothing to do with Word. It could be
something you yourself are doing with your keyboard by hitting an
unwanted key combination.

For example, if I accidentally press the Apple-key and the Space-bar at
the same time, my iBook switches from a Roman script (UK English) to a
Central European script (Hungarian). It switches back again if I press
them simultaneously a second time.

In Mac OS 9, which is what I use, it is a recognised way of kicking the
language into the next script group (and within that script group
selecting the last used languager in that group). Hence, possibly, the
persistence of returning to Czech.

Someone else will have to tell you how to check that out in Mac OS 10.