Why is PPT applying French dictionary?

[randy]

When I do a spellcheck in PPT, it wants to change "level" to "levet"
and "analysis" to "analysais." I go to Tools > Language, see French
highlighted, select English (US) instead, click default. Afterwards
(even after quitting), PPT goes right back to checking in French.
WORD doesn't do this for me. Please help.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

When I do a spellcheck in PPT, it wants to change "level" to "levet"
and "analysis" to "analysais." I go to Tools > Language, see French
highlighted, select English (US) instead, click default. Afterwards
(even after quitting), PPT goes right back to checking in French.
WORD doesn't do this for me. Please help.

Well if it reverts to other settings by itself, I woudl guess that the
PPT preferences are corrupted. You might want to try moving them aside
to let PPT re-create them and see if the problem persists.

Corentin

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Randy,

Is powerpoint doing this on just one particular presentation

or all of them?

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[randy]

You may be on to something TAJ. This problem started when I imported
someone else's slides into my PPT template. The other slides use a
font "BakerSignet" -- a font I'm not familiar with. I only have this
French problem with these slides. The problem is that I imported over
two dozen of these slides and I have used them to produce another
couple dozen presentations.

If the problem is this BakerSignet font, is there an easy way to make
font changes across many presentations (each with many pages)?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Randy,

I'm not sure on the mac.... but on the PC version of powerpoint you can
replace fonts by doing this...

format menu > replace fonts > then choose "bakersignet" as the font you want
to replace... and choose another font that you are happy with e.g. "arial"

cheers
TAJ

 

[randy]

Thanks TAJ -- that did the trick! And it just happens that not only
do I use Arial, but when I change BakerSignet to Arial, there is no
visual change. I've confirmed that the font changes when choosing
other fonts. So either BakerSignet is "French Arial" or it defaults
to Arial. Most importantly, the spell checking is in English.
Thanks!