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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / March 2005Language UK gone AWOL or at least highly unstable
Shortly after installation of Office 2004 (Mac) the Language button of Word disappeared. New preferences rectified that. A few days later Language did its nut again when no matter how often I clicked English UK it won't hold on to it (or any other Englishdictionary either). There is some kind of corruption in the preferences, but nothing I do seems to make any difference. Questions I wish to ask are: 1. Should I renistall entire Office 2004? and 2. If I do that, should I uninstall Office software first? What procedure should I follow? 3. Has anyone ever experienced the problem I have with language dictionary? Thank you. I hope someone can help. I should add that the iBook G4 is brand new. Pat Hunt > Shortly after installation of Office 2004 (Mac) the Language button of > Word disappeared. New preferences rectified that. That's a known issue--you accidentally hit the keyboard command to turn on Word 5.1 menus--once they are on, they can be turned off under View. Minor, and unrelated to your current difficulty. >A few days later > Language did its nut again when no matter how often I clicked English > UK it won't hold on to it (or any other Englishdictionary either). Okay, this doesn't make any sense to me. What is the problem? What exactly did you try that doesn't work, and what is the desired result? The most common difficulty with languages comes from not realizing that the text in the document needs to be tagged as a certain language. As long as that tag is applied, Word will generally take care of what you want, without you worrying about dictionaries. > There is some kind of corruption in the preferences, but nothing I do > seems to make any difference. Then moving the prefs file to the desktop and letting Word generate a new one should fix it, so I doubt that's it. > Questions I wish to ask are: > 1. Should I renistall entire Office 2004? and 2. If I do that, should I > uninstall Office software first? What procedure should I follow? Remove and Reinstall is a last resort after trying other troubleshooting measures--all the standard techniques and the best procedure for Remove and Reinstall are listed here, though you may not need them at this point. http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/TroubleshootingIndex.htm (hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser) >3. Has > anyone ever experienced the problem I have with language dictionary? Don't know, can't tell what your problem is, though there are certainly a number of posts here about dictionaries and language, which using Google Groups to search the newsgroup would lead you to. > Thank you. I hope someone can help. I should add that the iBook G4 is > brand new. What fun, new computer! > Pat Hunt  SignatureDaiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: <http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/> What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Thank you for your interest. I have dumped language preferences so many times and new ones formed. I have had the help of a Microsoft helpline agent. He seems stumped too. I can't add to the previous description. Everytime I open a new Word Doc no language is selected. I select English UK but nine times out of 10 it won't hold that selection. So no spelling/grammar errors are noted, and checker will report no problems. AND YET UK LANGUAGE SPELL/GRAMMAR CHECKER WORKS FINE IN ENTOURAGE. I am at my wits end with this. And that's why I wonder if I dumped everything to do with Word, and start again, might I get rid of this problem. I don't understand what the three Product Keys mean? Is that I can only install Office three times? Thank you, Pat > I don't understand what the three Product Keys mean? Is that I can only > install Office three times? Means you can install on three machines belonging to three people separately--you can re-install with the same Product Key for forever. > Thank you for your interest. I have dumped language preferences so many > times and new ones formed. Um, what does that mean? What file are you referring to? >I have had the help of a Microsoft helpline > agent. He seems stumped too. I can't add to the previous description. > Everytime I open a new Word Doc no language is selected. I select > English UK but nine times out of 10 it won't hold that selection. When does it not hold? When you hit enter, when you start a new doc, when you quit and restart Word? Be specific please. > So > no spelling/grammar errors are noted, and checker will report no > problems. AND YET UK LANGUAGE SPELL/GRAMMAR CHECKER WORKS FINE IN > ENTOURAGE. I am at my wits end with this. And that's why I wonder if I > dumped everything to do with Word, and start again, might I get rid of > this problem. Probably but more time consuming than necessary, I suspect. And you can't just dump everything to do with Word, you have to remove all of Office and then set it all back up. Try this: Format | Style, select Normal in left column, click on Modify, check the "add to template" box but NOT the "automatically update" box, use the Format drop-down menu at the bottom of the Modify dialog to select Language, and set it to UK English. (default text is usually in Normal style, and this will add the UK English language tag to all text in Normal style. It is possible that your text is not in Normal style--if you put the cursor in a word that is not being checked, when you go to Format |Style the style that you need to modify will already be selected). If that doesn't work, more things to check, from John McGhie: We need to check is that your system has the languages you want to use installed. Go to System Preferences>International>Input Menu and ensure the languages and keyboard you want to use are installed and enabled. (UK is under British) Look on your Menu Bar for the flag for the language you want to use (e.g. If you are using "English Australian", there should be an Australian flag there.) If either of these are wrong, Word will be asking for dictionaries that may not exists. Now bring up Word, and click in a sentence you want to spell-check. Go to Tools>Language and make sure that the "Mark Selected Text As" blue selection bar is highlighting the language you want to use. And make sure the "Do not check spelling or grammar" box is not checked. DM DM, my friend and saviour, I followed your Format, Style, Modify, etc. instructions but that made no difference. And then I then went to the International Input section where I found Ireland and US ticked (these settings were ticked by Apple). I then ticked UK as well to see what would happen. The UK flag (not Irish) appeared on menu bar. I have since opened and closed three Word documents, and each time the spell-checker/grammar facility worked perfectly. And I have just closed Word, opened it again, typed in misspelled words, and the red lines are beneath the words, and UK English is selected in Language panel. Have we struck gold? Shall I stop taking Prozac? I owe you a deep debt of gratitude. Thank you so much. Pat Hunt DM, my friend and saviour, I followed your Format, Style, Modify, etc. instructions but that made no difference. And then I then went to the International Input section where I found Ireland and US ticked (these settings were ticked by Apple). I then ticked UK as well to see what would happen. The UK flag (not Irish) appeared on menu bar. I have since opened and closed three Word documents, and each time the spell-checker/grammar facility worked perfectly. And I have just closed Word, opened it again, typed in misspelled words, and the red lines are beneath the words, and UK English is selected in Language panel. Have we struck gold? Shall I stop taking Prozac? I owe you a deep debt of gratitude. Thank you so much. Pat Hunt Glad to have helped--though in fact that information came from John McGhie, I just passed it on. Never would have known it myself otherwise. :) DM > DM, my friend and saviour, > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Pat Hunt Just returned to iBook and all is well with Word. Thank you again, and please thank John McGhie for me. This problem created considerable grief in my working life over the past few weeks. Thank you both, and may I wish you a happy Easter holiday. Pat Hunt (Ireland) |
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