language

[Judy Latimer]

I change the default language in Word quite often, and also use
Spellcheck in languages other than the default language.
Recently, there has been no Language option under the Tools menu.
How can I access Language tools and reconstitute the Tools menu?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Judy,

Side note: if you are changing languages a lot, it's possible to set up
shortcuts that may be faster than using Tools | Language. It would
involve a little messing about with macros and putting some energy into
customizing, but is not so difficult.

However, for your actual problem:

Make sure you didn't accidentally turn on "Word 5.1 Menus". Look under
View to see if there's a check next to that option--uncheck if so, it
will vanish. Word 2004 has had a rash of complaints about 5.1 Menus
being enabled because the simple keyboard shortcuts control-5 and
control-8 turn them on. If that's the case, you are missing much more
than just Tools | Language--but that's a very common one that people notice.

If that isn't the problem:

If you go to Tools | Customize Toolbars/Menus, select the Menu Bar, and
click Reset, it should set all your main menus and built-in toolbars
back to
the default. (Reset will not solve the 5.1 menus issue, though)

If you have customized your menus or toolbars, you may want to explore the
Tools | Customize, Commands dialog, and drag the commands you are missing
back to the toolbars/menus yourself, rather than wipe out your
customizations by clicking Reset.

 

[Judy Latimer]

Hi Daiya,

Thank you so much!!

Yes, I just needed to uncheck that option under View and the Language
came right back.

Congratulations on such a quick fix!

Judy Latimer


Daiya Mitchell a écrit :

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Glad to help. There was much confusion on this group when Word 2004 came
out, until someone (not me) figured out the 5.1 Menus bit.

Daiya

 

[Fiona Hackett]

My documents have not been not automatically spell checking and I traced the
problem to that it was not recognising 'english' as my default langauge - in
fact, its not letting me set any default language. Every time I go into
'language' option there is no language selected. For each new word document I
open I have to set the language manually. Does any one have a solution to why
this is happening?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Fiona,

That's odd, but entirely fixable. You can set it once to fix all new
documents, but you will have to fix old documents one by one.
Go to Tools>Language, select a langauge, and click Default. This will
change the Normal template, on which default new documents are based.

More explanation here, under "Set the Default Language"
http://word.mvps.org/mac/SpellCheck.html

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Fiona,

Hmm...lots of ideas but not sure what the key would be....

Can you try this? Open up your Normal template. With the cursor at the
beginning, please go to Format | Style. Tell me which style comes up
preselected, and what the style description says about language. Close
the Format | Style dialog. Then Select All, and set the Language. Hit
the spacebar then backspace to "dirty" Normal without actually changing
it, save and close the Normal template.

Create a new document. Is the language set correctly?

You didn't say what version of Word you are using. Unless you moved it,
your Normal template is here:
Word 2004: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal (where ~ stands for
your user account on the computer)
Word X, Word 2001, Word 98: /Applications/Microsoft Office
***/Templates/Normal (where *** stands for your version of Office)

Daiya

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

As Daiya _did_ say:

Word 2004: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal (where ~ stands for
your user account on the computer)

So Normal is NOT in the Templates folder. It's where she she says it is.
(And by "user account" she means your "Home" username folder.)

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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[Daiya Mitchell]

And that's what I get for actually directly answering a question and not
just telling you to read the SpellCheck link, where that is a last ditch
fix that I never would have remembered on my own, and there is a link to
a guy with the exact same issue and fix. Glad you solved it. Next time I
trust in the impersonal nature of articles and the value of recorded
information.

Daiya