Word 2008 changes language all of a sudden

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dekket

I'm using Word 2008 on Leopard (10.5.2)

When starting to write a document in Swedish, the chosen language
(automatically I guess,) was Swedish, thus no false spelling errors detected.
Then, I started formatting the document with titles and all, and then I
notice that some of the titles had spelling errors in them. Curious, I
right-clicked and it was suggesting english words. Now, that does NOT make
any sense to me whatsoever. The rest of the document is fine and no
paragraphs have false spelling errors in them, but I haven't begun formatting
them yet...

I am using an English Word 2008, but I have set it to Swedish, but that
didn't seem to matter.
 
M

MC

dekket said:
I'm using Word 2008 on Leopard (10.5.2)

When starting to write a document in Swedish, the chosen language
(automatically I guess,) was Swedish, thus no false spelling errors detected.
Then, I started formatting the document with titles and all, and then I
notice that some of the titles had spelling errors in them. Curious, I
right-clicked and it was suggesting english words. Now, that does NOT make
any sense to me whatsoever. The rest of the document is fine and no
paragraphs have false spelling errors in them, but I haven't begun formatting
them yet...

I am using an English Word 2008, but I have set it to Swedish, but that
didn't seem to matter.
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There is definitely some instability in this area - I suddenly found
Word defaulting to Australian English...
 
J

John McGhie

There is a design bug that switches language whenever you switch keyboard.

This makes the whole area of language quite unstable.

However, it your case it sounds as though some of your styles may have their
language property set. If that's the case, you will apply language
property when you apply certain styles.

Word itself doesn't have a language, and cannot be set to one. It derives
the initial language from the System International language setting when
Word starts.

When you create a new document, the language properties will be copied from
your Normal template. In a default Normal template, the Normal style is the
only style that has a language: every other style inherits from Normal.

However, the default paragraph also has a language, applied as direct
formatting. Unless you correct it, that is set to US English.

Then while you are working on a document, the language will switch if you
change keyboard to access a specific character. In most cases, it will not
switch back. This is causing huge problems and we are waiting on a fix for
this bug.

The quick fix for documents that should have only one language, is to select
all and apply the correct language as direct formatting to the whole
document. It's ugly, but it works.

Sorry to be very little help!

I'm using Word 2008 on Leopard (10.5.2)

When starting to write a document in Swedish, the chosen language
(automatically I guess,) was Swedish, thus no false spelling errors detected.
Then, I started formatting the document with titles and all, and then I
notice that some of the titles had spelling errors in them. Curious, I
right-clicked and it was suggesting english words. Now, that does NOT make
any sense to me whatsoever. The rest of the document is fine and no
paragraphs have false spelling errors in them, but I haven't begun formatting
them yet...

I am using an English Word 2008, but I have set it to Swedish, but that
didn't seem to matter.
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Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]
 
J

John McGhie

Yeah, it will do that when it gets really confused. English AUS is the
first English in the list.

We were going to keep quiet about that, because it's rather nice, after 20
years of having it default to that heathen patois of pidgin named "English"
US :)

Cheers

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Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]
 
P

Phillip Jones

Speak for yourself! Go Play with Darigimy DOO! ;-)

John said:
Yeah, it will do that when it gets really confused. English AUS is the
first English in the list.

We were going to keep quiet about that, because it's rather nice, after 20
years of having it default to that heathen patois of pidgin named "English"
US :)

Cheers
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P

Phillip Jones

I knew someone would come along with the correct spelling. ;-)
Hi Phillip -



Ya mean 'digery do'? I doubt John has the wind for it:)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
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Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling
616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868
Martinsville Va 24112 |[email protected], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet
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If it's "fixed", don't "break it"!

mailto:p[email protected]

<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm>
<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm>

<http://www.vpea.org>
 
C

CyberTaz

To tell you the truth Phillip I believe I've seen it about 4 different ways
- all from "authoritative" sources:)

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
 

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