How do I change the default language in a document?

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David Thielen - 22 Jan 2004 15:56 GMT

Hi;

How can I change the default language for a Word document? I tried
selecting the entire document and then Tools, Languages, Set but that
didn't work.

Same for new documents - I used Tools, Languages to chage the default
to German - but new documents continue to have a default language of
English.

I am checking the .rtf file it saves and looking at the
\deflang1033\deflangfe1033 tags - which are US English no matter what
I do.

How can I change this?

thanks - dave

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BMC - 22 Jan 2004 20:46 GMT

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What keyboard layout are you using?

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David Thielen - 23 Jan 2004 02:36 GMT

All standard default US English - Windows XP, Office 2003, etc.

thanks - dave

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>What keyboard layout are you using?

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 26 Jan 2004 15:06 GMT

Hi David,

> How can I change the default language for a Word document? I

See the article on language formatting on my website. Do come
back with additional questions if the article doesn't clear
things up for you :-)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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