Word 2002 Spellchecking Language Settings

[Muttley]

Hi

I (and the users I deal with) are UK based, but as part of a multinational company. As a result, we often receive documents that have originated in other countries, created in languages other than UK English. These documents can be used as the source for new documents, which are ostensibly written in UK English, however the users do not always change the language setting to UK for the entire document.

My question is - if Word is set to UK English as a default and a user receives one of these 'hybrid' documents, which language setting takes prominence? The one set as a default in Word or the one that is in the template?

Thanks in advance

 

[fumei]

Please clarify. You state you receive a document. Then you state you are receiving a template? Or are you receiving a document that is created from a template that is in another language.

Thanks.

Gerry

 

[Muttley]

Gerry

My apologies - for 'template' read 'document' (i.e .we are talking here about .doc files and not .dot).

Thanks

 

[skeelsie1]

It will revert to last saved version, so English(UK) i assume.

 

[Madawc]

If you do a 'Select All', you can then change the entire document to one language. Does this help?

Microsoft products seem to prefer to use US English, regardless of the default on your own computer.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK)