Hi

To clarify here I work for a multi-language company Office is installed in US English language packs are loaded for French, German, Czech and Japanese.

For my case I have a French Laptop but most of my communication is in English. In the office language settings everything is set to English. But the keyboard remains set in French.

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When I open any Office document the proofing language will be French. In Word for instance at the bottom of the screen every new document opens with France (French).

I have tried changing this via the language preferences, by GPO and by Registry hack and nothing works. The proofing tool always defaults to the user input language defined on the OS. You can change it document by document of for PowerPoint slide by slide. But that's not what I want. I want the spell check and grammar to check for the language I define as default.

Has anyone got any ideas.

Thanks

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your question.

As per your description, it seems you have the Detect language automatically option turned on. This feature detects the language that you are typing in and enables the proofing tools for that language.

Please try to turn off this option and then verify result:

1. Open a new Word document or an email message from the Outlook client.
2. On the Review tab, in the Language group, click Language.
3. Click Set Proofing Language.
4. In the Language dialog box, deselect the Detect language automatically check box.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Ethan Hua
TechNet Community Support

Hi Ethan

Thank you for your response. The detect language automatically box is not ticked on my setup. I can open up the proofing tools select English (US or UK) click set as default. The I can open a new document and voila the language is French.

When I do use the detect language automatically function. It will detect what language I'm writing in and after 5-6 words will pick the right proofing tools. This is OK for Word but not OK for PowerPoint or Excel where there are less words to sample.

I had this behaviour in Office 2010 and now with 2013 (Office 365) but office 2007 did it right.

Is there some way I can break the link between the keyboard and the default language?

Thanks

Bump

It doesn't have to be Ethan anyone else got an idea?

• Edited by Bob Rickard 22 hours 22 minutes ago

Hi,

Have you tried adding a additional keyboard to your regional settings? Don't know if it will solve the issues but it worked for me in other software applications. When added you wil be able to set the keyboard via the windows taskbar when working in Office.

Maurice

Hi Maurice

Yes I have tried that and it works in so far that Office will open in the language of the Keyboard and immediately switch to the correct spell and grammar checker.

But here is the preble; zhen I type zith the US keyboqrd settings on q French azerty keyboqrd the letters printed on the keyboqrd no longer ;qtch zhqt is on the screen<

Just a little demonstration of the problem I can either have the right proofing tools but guess where the letters are or the right letters but proofing tools do not match the setting.

Before office 97 the solution was to have stickers on the keyboard. But for office 97 to Office 2007 it worked correctly.  Then from Office 2010 a policy of cultural purity took over and the intercultural hedonism of the previous versions was abandoned.

My poor Swiss friends are even more confused as they have Swiss French, Swiss German and Swiss Italian keyboards and now Office will not allow them to wander out of their enclaves.

I'm beginning to wonder if the language settings are just an illusion of choice that is over ridden by another programmer who knows better than the users.

Wow that was cathartic.  

But thanks for the suggestion it is the closest we have come to a solution to this issue.

Bob