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PeterC - 24 Dec 2004 00:51 GMT

I have setup language/dictionary to English Australian. If I cut and paste
text from www.theage.com.au into word dictionary changes to English US.
Dictionay was English Australian before paste. If this is normal behaviour is
there a way to turn it off?

WinXP SP1
Office professional 2003.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 04 Jan 2005 14:34 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXJD?=,

> I have setup language/dictionary to English Australian. If I cut and paste
> text from www.theage.com.au into word dictionary changes to English US.
> Dictionay was English Australian before paste. If this is normal behaviour is
> there a way to turn it off?

This is probably normal behavior. Text coming from web pages may be formatted
with a language, and "smart paste" will carry the language formatting across,
along with other formatting. If you use Edit/Paste Special and paste as plain
text, does the problem disappear?

If you want to carry other formatting across, this option is not very useful, of
course. But testing will tell us if my theory is what's happening. If this is
the case, you can select what was pasted then apply the language you want from
Tools/Language/Set language.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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PeterC - 04 Jan 2005 22:53 GMT

Thank you kindly for response. Edit/Paste special worked for all format
options except html. So perhaps rtf format will limit the amount of
formatting that is lost.
I don't know if language setting would be another way. My default is English
Australian however English US is in the (automatically) selectable list also
and I believe it will switch to English US if English US formatting is
detected so don't know how to take English US out of the list.

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXJD?=,
>
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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 05 Jan 2005 20:39 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXJD?=,

> Edit/Paste special worked for all format
> options except html. So perhaps rtf format will limit the amount of
> formatting that is lost.

Generally, it should. Tables might appear differently, for example. In order to
reduce the number of steps, try recording Edit/Paste Special (as RTF) in a
macro, and assign it to a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut.

There isn't any way to prevent Word from using language formatting if it's
brought in with text. You can keep spell check from flagging text in one
language or another, but there's no way to tell Word to not use one and
substitute another. Although you should be able to use Find/Replace (or change
the formatting manually, as I described in my previous message).

> I don't know if language setting would be another way. My default is English
> Australian however English US is in the (automatically) selectable list also
> and I believe it will switch to English US if English US formatting is
> detected so don't know how to take English US out of the list.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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