Microsoft KB Archive/224702

= WD2000: Language Auto-Detection Doesn't Work When Using Spelling & Grammar =

Article ID: 224702

Article Last Modified on 2/28/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q224702



SYMPTOMS
When you check the spelling and grammar of text formatted with a mixture of languages, language auto-detection does not appear to work.

For example, when you check the spelling and grammar of the following sentence, where the text is a combination of Dutch (Belgian) and U.S. English, the spelling and grammar check is done using the Dutch (Belgian) language files rather than the U.S. English language files:

Het gezegde: "small is beautiful" is zeker niet van toepassing hier.

In this case, the English text, "small is beautiful", is flagged as incorrectly spelled because Word is using the Dutch (Belgian) dictionary to check the text.



CAUSE
Word evaluates text sentence by sentence to determine its language. If a sentence contains words from more than one language, or many scientific or other special terms, Word may apply the default language for the document, or it may apply the language of the preceding sentence.

If a word has a wavy underline because it is in a different language, you can apply the correct language. To do this, right-click the word, point to Language on the shortcut menu, and then click Set Language to select the language you want.



WORKAROUND
When Word flags a word as misspelled because Word is using the wrong language, change the dictionary to the appropriate language.

To do this, in the Dictionaries list in the Spelling & Grammar dialog box (on the Tools menu, click Options), click to select the dictionary you want to use for the flagged word.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about international and multilingual features in Microsoft Word 2000, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212400 WD2000: General Information About International and Multilingual Features

Additional query words: foreign spell check grammar

Keywords: kbnofix kbprb KB224702

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