Can one eliminate English (US) from Word?

External Since: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 17

Word 2003 keeps switching from my default language, English (UK), to Englsih
(US). I mentioned this problem last year, but despite having made all the
recommended changes for this problem by Suzanne - at
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm - Word 2003 still
occasionally changes to English (US) from the default English (UK).

I only notice this when doing AutoCorrect entries, and find they do not work
because the default language has switched to English (US), or when Spell
Check is 'misspelling' certain words. It is a real wind-up when I realize
that the many Autocorrect enteries I've imputted that day are not available
to English (UK) because Word has a mind of its own (seems to be an American
mind!).

I also notice that although in both XP and in the Office Language Settings
the only language that should be available to me is English (UK), in Word
under TOOLS | LANGUAGE | SET LANGUAGE | MARK SELECTED TEXT LANGUAGE, English
(US) is still available with English (UK). As I've only selected English
(UK) to be available in both XP and Word, why is English (US) available at
all? How can I completely eliminate English (US) so that it is completely
unavailable?

Is there something I can do in the registry? I've looked in
HKEY_Current_User | Software | Microsoft | Office | 11.0 | Language
Resources, and under 1003 (English [US]) the Value data is 'ExplicitOff', and
under 2057 (English [UK]) the Value data is 'On'. Given this, how can it
change of its own? Is there a key stroke that I might accidently make that
can make this change?

Thanks,

Robert

External Since: Aug 05, 2004 Posts: 300

It is possibly being switched by text from third parties eg web sites. Check
that tools > language > set language > automatically detect language is
unselected and that the automatically update parameter is not selected in
the format > style dialog.

Note that Word 2003 has a nasty habit of changing some of your preferences
all by itself. Where this is a problem the user preferences need to be
reinforced by autonew and autoopen macros. Add the following code to each of
an autonew and an autoopen macro in normal.dot so that each document will at
least start with the required settings:

Selection.LanguageID = wdEnglishUK
Application.CheckLanguage = False

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm" target="_blank">http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm</a>

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Sagara wrote:
> Word 2003 keeps switching from my default language, English (UK), to
> Englsih (US). I mentioned this problem last year, but despite having
> made all the recommended changes for this problem by Suzanne - at
> <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm" target="_blank">http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm</a> - Word 2003
> still occasionally changes to English (US) from the default English
> (UK).
>
> I only notice this when doing AutoCorrect entries, and find they do
> not work because the default language has switched to English (US),
> or when Spell Check is 'misspelling' certain words. It is a real
> wind-up when I realize that the many Autocorrect enteries I've
> imputted that day are not available to English (UK) because Word has
> a mind of its own (seems to be an American mind!).
>
> I also notice that although in both XP and in the Office Language
> Settings the only language that should be available to me is English
> (UK), in Word under TOOLS | LANGUAGE | SET LANGUAGE | MARK SELECTED
> TEXT LANGUAGE, English (US) is still available with English (UK). As
> I've only selected English (UK) to be available in both XP and Word,
> why is English (US) available at all? How can I completely eliminate
> English (US) so that it is completely unavailable?
>
> Is there something I can do in the registry? I've looked in
> HKEY_Current_User | Software | Microsoft | Office | 11.0 | Language
> Resources, and under 1003 (English [US]) the Value data is
> 'ExplicitOff', and under 2057 (English [UK]) the Value data is 'On'.
> Given this, how can it change of its own? Is there a key stroke that
> I might accidently make that can make this change?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert