Default language stays on English (US)

Deon · Guest

Hi there.

Office 2007.

I want to set my default language permanently on: English (South Africa).

BUT, for the life of me it does not stay there. I have set it to be the
default language upon which Word ask me if I want ot do this because it is
going to be uased as default for all new document.

Yes, that is what I want.

When creating a new document, its back to English (U.S.)

Please help me to change this. I'm loosing it here.

Regards,
Deon

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Brian · Guest

Try: Control Panel\Regional and Language Options\Languge Tab\Details

Then change the default input language.

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Brian McCaffery

"Deon" wrote:

Hennie · Guest

Deon,

I do not know if this would work for 2007 but you can try it. It was
written by Ravinder S Mahoon for previous versions.

Groete

Hennie

"Enable only the languages you want to use. Go to START/Programs/Microsoft
Office/Microsoft Office Tools/MicrosoftOffice [version] Language Settings.
In here, enable only the languages you intend to spell check. Enabling other
languages will enable Word to switch these languages - something you want to
avoid.

Note: not available for Office 97

Set the default language in Word Open Word; a new document should be
displayed, and no text should be selected. Tools/Language/Set language.
Choose your language and click "Default" (Note: this changes the Language
formatting of the Normal style in the Normal.dot template). If on exiting
Word you are prompted to save changes to the Normal.dot template, say "Yes",
otherwise the default setting will not "stick".

It is of the utmost importance that the Windows and Word language settings
match exactly. Only then will language formatting in Word be controllable,
reliable and half-way predictable.

Turn off the Auto-options to stop Word 2000 and later versions from changing
languages on you in

mid-stream:

Deactivate the language Auto-detect in Tools/Language/Set language

Deactivate the keyboard Auto-detect in Tools/Options/Edit.

If you've used and really like these options, then leave them on. But if you
start getting unpredictable language changes while editing, try turning them
off.

Sometimes, the keyboard and the language will change on you, anyway, if
you've more than one keyboard layout used for one or more languages in the
Control Panel. Windows allows you to assign keyboard shortcuts to
language/keyboard combinations (Regional and Language
Options/Languages/Details/Key Settings); probably, you've pressed such a key
combination. If you don't want to use these, turn them off."

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