Language Settings

[Chris]

Hi,

My usres language is set to US and I want to set it to UK. I go into Tools/Language/Set Language and change the default to UK. However everytime the users opens a document it reverts back to using US lamguage. Does anyone know how I can make this change permament.

Thanks

Chris

 

[Franksta]

You could try the following article to resolve this issue:

292106 Changes to Default Language Settings Are Not Retained
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q292106

In the past, I have found that if you open a document that was created using
a different dictionary (say US) from the one that you were using (say UK)
then it would use the dictionary that was used to create that document and
revert to your default dictionary when you are working on either new
documents or documents that were created using the same dictionary that you
are.

Basically, if someone made a document in US language and you default Word
language was UK, it would open it in US. Then if you were working on a new
document it would revert to UK.

Do you see this happening in your environment?

 

[EPPack]

I have a similar problem. I have a doc that I created from scratch, and
needed to copy in some code from Dreamweaver (a high end HTML web page
editor). When I pasted it in, I ran the spell checker on just the new text,
and to my consternation, it was checking it in French! This despite it NOT
being in French, needless to say, and I had never installed any kind of
language support, other than US English. I changed all the language settings
I could find, as described in various messages here, and it pretty much
always stayed in English except for this one document. I even tested this by
running the spell checker against the entire document, and as soon as it hit
my new stuff, it *automatically* switched from the English spell checker to
the French one! Very odd. I got around it by removing the code, then pasting
it into a plain text editor, then back into my document, where it "stuck" as
English. I guess it must have thought Dreamweaver is French, not HTML

Incidentally, the support doc mentioned below indicates that there is an
Input Locales tab on the Keyboard properties in the Control Panel but my XP
Pro does NOT show it at all FWIW. And in fairness, I have to run both Office
2003 AND Word 2000 (to support an application that doesn't work with 2K3).
I'm sure something got wanky in this process