Microsoft KB Archive/278539

= English (U.K.) is not the default dictionary for Chinese (Hong Kong) in PowerPoint =

Article ID: 278539

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q278539





SYMPTOMS
You select Chinese (Hong Kong SAR) in the Language dialog box in Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 or in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Then, you type a word that is spelled the British way. For example, you type &quot;gaol&quot; instead of &quot;jail.&quot; When you do this, the word is tagged as misspelled.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because the spelling checker defaults to English (U.S.) instead of English (U.K.) when Chinese languages are selected.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, select English (U.K.) for the spelling checker instead of Chinese (Hong Kong SAR).

To select a language for the spelling checker, follow these steps, as appropriate for the version of PowerPoint that you are running.

PowerPoint 2007

 * 1) Start PowerPoint.
 * 2) Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options.
 * 3) On the PowerPoint Options page, click Popular, and then click Language settings.
 * 4) In the Microsoft Office Languages Settings 2007 dialog box, click to select the English (U.K.) check box under Available editing languages, and then click Add.

Note English (U.S.) is in the Enabled editing languages box.
 * 1) In the Microsoft Office Languages Settings 2007 dialog box, click to select the English (U.K.) check box under Primary editing language, and then click OK.
 * 2) Press F7 to start the spelling checker.

PowerPoint 2002

 * 1) Start PowerPoint.
 * 2) On the Tools menu, click Language.
 * 3) In the Mark selected text as box, click English (U.K.), and then click OK.
 * 4) Press F7 to start the spelling checker.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



PowerPoint 2007

 * 1) Start PowerPoint.
 * 2) Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click PowerPoint Options.
 * 3) On the PowerPoint Options page, click Popular, and then click Language settings.
 * 4) In the Microsoft Office Languages Settings 2007 dialog box, click to select the Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) check box under Available editing languages, and then click Add.
 * 5) On the Click to add subtitle placeholder on the slide, type gaol.
 * 6) Press F7 to start the spelling checker.

Notice that &quot;gaol&quot; is tagged as misspelled.

PowerPoint 2002

 * 1) Start PowerPoint and use the default presentation.
 * 2) On the Tools menu, click Language.
 * 3) In the Mark selected text as box, click Chinese (Hong Kong SAR), and then click OK.
 * 4) In the Subtitle placeholder, type gaol.
 * 5) Press F7 to start the spelling checker.

Notice that &quot;gaol&quot; is tagged as misspelled.

Additional query words: PPT2002 PPT PPT2007

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB278539

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