Please describe the symptoms in more detail. Perhaps you could post a screen shot that illustrates what you see.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Macprod: it's a bit strange that this particular issue hasn't been reported previously, but here I am nontheless.

Stefan: Thank you for your willingness to help. There isn't much to describe really. I change the "Display and Help Languages" by selecting "English" on the top of the list in Options->Language->Choose display language. When I restart Word the interface language promptly switches to English as it is supposed to. The interface then switches back to a different installed language (Norwegian) when I restart Word after a random time interval (typically a few days or at the next computer restart). There is no apparent reason for this to be happening, so I am assuming a progamming error in Word. Wouldn't be the first one I saw, so I just need to know if there is a way to work around it.

I understand that most people wouldn't consider this to be so big of an issue and just move on with their lifes. My problem is that I work with English documents a lot, and I quikcly find myself distracted when I have to interface Word in a different language than the one I am writing.

Thanks for your help!

If you are saying that you are typing/editing documents in different languages, you shouldn't change the display language but rather the language of your text; that way, you get the correct spellchecking.

That said, I don't know why the display language changes on its own. It clearly shouldn't, unless you picked the option that matches the language of Office with that of Windows.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Stefan, thank you for your reply, and your suggestions. As it happens, I didn't pick the option for the display language to "Match Microsoft Windows". I did change the spell checking language, but it doesn't change the fact that I want to change the interface language as well. I guess I'll just have to live with this thing.

Do you also have two input languages (keyboard layouts) installed?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional