Unneeded Languages In Documents

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George Lee - 11 Dec 2007 14:24 GMT

I am cleaning up some documents for another group and many have different
languages marked in them without good reason. They are not located through
the Languages criterion of the Find dialog. Rather, they appear in the HTML
(either through HTMLDivisions or the Word 2003 Script editor). Examples
include:

<span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS
PGothic";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA;mso-no-proof:no'>

<span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-font-family:"MS PGothic";
mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;color:black;background:fuchsia;mso-
highlight:fuchsia;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:JA;
mso-no-proof:no'>

Is there any way to remove these references from the HTML (even if there are
zero characters associated with it), or does it being there not hurt any
thing?

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Klaus Linke - 12 Dec 2007 00:50 GMT

>I am cleaning up some documents for another group and many have different
> languages marked in them without good reason. They are not located through
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> zero characters associated with it), or does it being there not hurt any
> thing?

Hi George,

Have you tried to select the whole doc and set the language to "English (UK)"?
Maybe it might also help to uncheck the option in "Tools > Options > Save" to embed language-specific info... not sure.

Maybe it doesn't hurt much to just ignore it. One way in which it can be annoying is that Word may switch the font for text it deems to be Asian.

Regards,
Klaus

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Tony Jollans - 12 Dec 2007 01:18 GMT

I don't know how easy it would be to remove them but they shouldn't cause
any problems that I'm aware of. They are there, I think, because the
computer that created them had a fareast language (Japanese) enabled even
though they may never have used it.

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Enjoy,
Tony

>I am cleaning up some documents for another group and many have different
> languages marked in them without good reason. They are not located through
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> zero characters associated with it), or does it being there not hurt any
> thing?

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