Removing Language Dictionaries

[Parrish]

I use English and SPanish. Occassionally, I will insert a Greek or
Hebrew word in the text. However, when I select Language from the
tools menu it has a lot of languages I will never use. which adds to
the selection process. How do I get rid of Polish, Turkish, Chinese,
etc. from this menu/program? I fear making any change may result in
some of the problems others are having with spell check and grammar
check. Are these wide ranging problems?

Thanks

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I use English and SPanish. Occassionally, I will insert a Greek or
Hebrew word in the text. However, when I select Language from the
tools menu it has a lot of languages I will never use. which adds to
the selection process. How do I get rid of Polish, Turkish, Chinese,
etc. from this menu/program? I fear making any change may result in
some of the problems others are having with spell check and grammar
check. Are these wide ranging problems?

I'm not sure you can.... It's a list of languages that's not even
connected to whatever proofing tools you have installed on the Mac :-\


Corentin

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm not sure you can.... It's a list of languages that's not even
connected to whatever proofing tools you have installed on the Mac :-\

Ditto. However, you can speed up the selection process, and thus
eliminate the need to do this. Just ask if you want additional
explanation on any of these, or if something is not behaving.

Option 1-- type the first letter of the language you are looking for, or
the first few letters typed pretty fast. This will jump you through the
dialog. (This tip works most Word dialogs, as well as web browser forms,
and is always worth trying)

Or you can bypass the dialog entirely, since it seems like you always
use the same few languages.

Option 2--create macros that apply the desired language to selected text
(as direct formatting, rather than style-based). Macros can be put on a
menu/toolbar or given a keyboard command. You can create these macros
for yourself by recording them (Help is decent on recording macros). Or
here are Corentin's examples which you could edit for your preferred
languages (How to Install a Macro:
<http://word.mvps.org/Mac/InstallMacro.html>)

Sub Fr()
Selection.LanguageID = wdFrench
Selection.NoProofing = False
End Sub

Sub US()
Selection.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS
Selection.NoProofing = False
End Sub

Option 3--create character styles that already have the languages you
use. Put the character styles on a menu/toolbar or assign a keyboard
command to them. Then quickly apply the character styles to selected text.

hope that helps,
Daiya

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Parrish:

The others are correct, you cannot change that list.

It is in fact a list of Locale IDs that all software in the world uses to
identify language settings in text and in software. The list is built in to
the application, and enables it to operate with documents sent from outside
your computer.

The complete list is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/lcid-all.mspx

Even though this seems to have been a Microsoft idea, the entire industry
seems to be using them now. You will notice that the list in Microsoft Word
is not complete: it offers only the LCIDs that Word can understand. Many of
us in here are hoping that the list will be much more complete in the next
version

Cheers

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