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Old 12-12-2017, 10:13 AM
Andrew H Andrew H is offline Proofing Language Changes do Not Take Effect Windows 7 32bit Proofing Language Changes do Not Take Effect Office 2016
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Upon discovering that my spellchecker was operating in French I did Review -> Language -> Set Proofing Language and changed to English (US). I also unchecked "Detect Language Automatically". No love. I confirmed that the setting had indeed been changed by re-doing the Review -> Language -> Set Proofing Language sequence and noting that English (US) was indeed what had been selected.
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Old 12-12-2017, 10:46 AM
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The proofing language setting operates very much like character formatting. It is a setting for a single word, or even character. It is not a document setting. It is not a setting for Word as a whole.

It is often contained in Styles.

Click in a word that is showing up as misspelled. Then press Shift+F1.

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Old 12-12-2017, 11:08 AM
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The proofing language setting operates very much like character formatting. It is a setting for a single word, or even character. It is not a document setting. It is not a setting for Word as a whole.

It is often contained in Styles.

Click in a word that is showing up as misspelled. Then press Shift+F1.
Fair enough, tried this. Unsurprisingly, the language associated with the problematic words is indeed French. But that does not really help me - why is it French and, more importantly, how can I make sure the entire document is treated as an English document as far as spell-checking is concerned?
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Old 12-12-2017, 02:25 PM
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*** and, more importantly, how can I make sure the entire document is treated as an English document as far as spell-checking is concerned?
I don't know where the French language attribute came from, but it may have popped in before you unchecked "Detect language." Something even more subtle is if the box is checked to not check spelling or grammar. If you don't know the underlying structure, it feels very much like a gremlin or virus.

As a start, for this document,
  1. Press Ctrl+A to select all text in the body of your document
  2. Then go to the Reviewing > Language setting and make sure that the language is set to English [US].
Just as if you were using a colored font, copying and pasting will copy the language attribute. Starting typing at the end of a word set in a language will continue that language.

If you have styles set to automatically update from your formatting, they can pick this up and make it part of the style definition. Text copied in from another Word document can carry the formatting as well, includiing in styles.

I hope that has not happened. If you still have problems, feel free to write back.
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Old 12-13-2017, 11:33 PM
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I was confronted with a very similar issue when reviewing a document several people had cobbled together with copy/paste … I used ctrl+A and changed the language setting in the status bar, but this does not seem to trump any "lower-level" settings in styles or paragraphs :-{
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Old 12-14-2017, 06:06 AM
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I was confronted with a very similar issue when reviewing a document several people had cobbled together with copy/paste … I used ctrl+A and changed the language setting in the status bar, but this does not seem to trump any "lower-level" settings in styles or paragraphs :-{
It should trump the style setting but does not modify the style setting, just as you can change the color or font of text in a style.

The following macro should set each style to EnglishUS.

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Sub StyleEnglishUS()
'   Written 14 December 1017
'   Charles Kenyon
'   Intended to set all styles to English US, proofing, not automatitically update
'
    Dim aStyle As Style
    For Each aStyle In ActiveDocument.Styles
            aStyle.AutomaticallyUpdate = False ' probably do not want this for TOC styles - future work
            aStyle.LanguageID = wdEnglishUS
            aStyle.NoProofing = False
    Next 'aStyle
    ActiveDocument.UpdateStylesOnOpen = False
End Sub
This also sets all styles to not automatically update. You probably want your TOC styles to automatically update based on formatting; but, I did not write around them.

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Old 12-14-2017, 06:31 AM
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You can omit the lines about automatically update and noproofing. This would make it a bit cleaner.
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Thanks, Charles! I've been away from the office for a long end-of-year break …
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Old 01-03-2018, 07:32 AM
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Thanks for the feedback everyone; I have yet to try all the suggestion as I had to move on to other things at work. But please be assured - I will try everything suggested.
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