A Quick Tip for Changing the Language in Microsoft Word.

Posted on November 22, 2007 
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Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks and Tutorials - A Quick Tip for Changing the Language in Microsoft Word.

Let’s say you are already working in a document and you want to change the language English US to English UK. Simple selecting another language isn’t always enough for stopping Microsoft Word to jump back to English US. The problem is that MS Word thinks in language per template and not per sentence or word.

 

The Microsoft Word 2003 Tutorial…

  • Choose Tools.
  • Go to language.
  • And select set language.
  • Select the language you want.
  • And click on OK.

This is the official way, you can also click on the language button in the lower part of your Word application.

Now you set the use of another language per word or per sentence.

If your Word application is using the other, in this case English US language for his template it won’t take long before Word automatically sets the default language back to English US.

If you want to set the entire document to English UK you have to press CTRL+A first to select every symbol, word, space and sentence in your document. Now that you have everything selected you need to follow the steps as mentioned above and the entire document is set on English UK.

 

Word Tip TrickThe Microsoft Word 2007 Tutorial…

The whole setup as Microsoft Word 2003 is the same. You should first press CTRL+A to select the entire document.

The only difference with Word 2007 is that you don’t have the option to access to the language settings via the toolbar; you need to access the language setting via the language button in the lower part of your Window.

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2 Responses to “A Quick Tip for Changing the Language in Microsoft Word.”

  1. JC on August 19th, 2008 10:17 pm

    my computer has a special operating system, windows xp crystal, and the base of it is arabic, which can be very frustrating!!!! this is the first time i’m using microsoft word 2007 with this operating system and all the settings and everything are fine- written in english- but everything i type is in arabic. i’ve gone to the button at the bottom of the screen to change it to english and it says that i’ve set the default language to english, but after i click close it’s still in arabic… the letters are plus it types right to left!!!

  2. Vincent on August 20th, 2008 12:06 am

    What you can try JC.

    Go to the left top corner and press the office button. Select Word options, proofing, custom dictionaries and select dictionary language.

    Let me know if this helps okay?

    FYI. I’m leaving for a vacation in Portugal within 3 days so it might take me some time to respond;).

    I might be late with my reply but I’m not forgetting you:)

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