Language in MS WORD 2016 keeps resetting to English (US) mid-writing

H_Muller · 30. März 2018

Okay, this is so easy, I honestly hope I'm just too blind to see:

I have a notebook with german keyboard layout.

Respectively I have the language in windows set to German, so the labels on the keyboard match the OS's key mapping.

In WORD 2016 I want to set the language for the spell/grammar check to English (Ireland) since I'm writing english and want to have my spelling checked without 'optimising' beeing marked as wrong or autocorrected to 'optimizing'.

I set the default language in WORD to English (Ireland), I write a few words and it's back to English (US).

I deleted the English (US) keyboard from my windows, as well as in WORD.

No matter, it keeps going back to English (US).

So - how do I force WORD to use the language I told it to while having the right key mapping for my keyboard?

I did look for answers, but the only thing I found was the 'here is an unconvenient solution, change your OS keyboard layout' road.

Best Regards,

Hendrik

Office 365 WORD 2016

Windows 7 Professional x64

H_Muller

Solved, hopefully - Some parts of the text were 'formatted' to English (US), so when I sliced it into pieces it jumped back to that language. Since this isn't a visible formatting, it can be treacherous since it's not obvious which parts of the text are
set to which language.

Lisa Wilke-Thissen

Hallo Hendrik,

erstens erkennt man in der Statusleiste über die Schaltfläche "Sprache", welche Sprache dem aktuell markierten Text zugewiesen ist.

Zweitens sollte man dort grundsätzlich die Option "Sprache automatisch erkennen" deaktivieren.

Drittens sollte die korrekte Sprache bereits in den Formatvorlagen (Styles) festgelegt sein.

Viertens kann man per "Strg+H | Suchen" nach Textstellen suchen, denen eine bestimmte Sprache zugeordnet ist, und diese per "Suchen in: Hauptdokument" markieren lassen, um ggf. schnell eine andere Sprache oder Formatvorlage zuzuweisen.

Viele Grüße

Lisa

Vaidya Darpan MSFT

Hi UlrichHöfer,

If you need any further information or help, please feel free to contact us and provide us some brief information in English language for further assistant.

Regards,

Darpan

RAN_WB

Hallo Herr Spohr,

leider nicht. Die erste Antwort dort war nicht hilfeich für meinen Fall, und danach hat sich leider seit 4 Wochen niemand mehr gemeldet. (https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/5d9b25ee-32d7-4a0b-a2b9-8aeff474f8c8/visio-2016-set-proofing-language-to-english?forum=visiogeneral)

Ich hätte mir von Microsoft einen besseren Support gewünscht...

Viele Grüße,

Nik S.

Hi StankoBeronja,

I'm Nik, an independent advisor here to assist you with this.

Please try resetting the OneDrive app as described in the following article and try again:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/rese...

Please resetting Microsoft OneDrive can sometimes resolve sync issues and resets all OneDrive settings. OneDrive will perform full sync after the reset.

You won't lose any data by resetting or uninstalling OneDrive.

Regards

Nik

Hi,

willkommen im Windows Forum!

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