From: RobertB 

In article ,
 mike  wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:25:12 -0500, RobertB 
> wrote:
>
> >In article ,
> > mike  wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:00:43 +0000, Adam
> >> <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote:
> >>
> >> >mike wrote:
> >> >>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/02/office_2007_spellcheck/
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> ===
> >> >> Much to the delight of Francophiles everywhere,
Microsoft's Office 2007
> >> >> switches Outlook Express spell-checkers to work only
in French. Those
> >> >> disposed to communicate in other languages are being
advised to use
> >> >> third-party programs.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >Ah bon 
> >> >
> >> >Vive la microsoft....
> >>
> >> I stumbled upon an interesting MS Word bug this past week.  I
copied and
> >> pasted some text from a document written by our European team into one
> >> of my documents.  That simple act changed the drop-down styles menu on
> >> the toolbar to Dutch (our European team has an office in The
> >> Netherlands).  Deleting the text did not help, nor did 'undo'ing back
> >> prior to the paste.
> >>
> >> I had to copy all, paste into notepad to lose all the formatting info,
> >> then copy and paste back into a different doc and redo my formatting.
> >>
> >> Lost about a half hour on that one...
> >>
> >>  /m
> >
> >It probably brought over the style sheet with the paste, thinking (?)
> >that the copied block of text would need them.
>
> That's what I first thought, but all of the Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.
> styles were missing, replaced with the Dutch ones.  (Unfortunately, my
> Dutch is not that good yet)

Hmm. Sounds like it replaced the original styles with those from the Dutch
document for some reason.

>
> >My guess is you could
> >have overcome the problem by reselecting your default style for the
> >text.
>
> My default style was not there anymore.

Where'd it go? Oh, it wasn't in the palette. Did you try using the Style
Organizer? That's the easiest way to do it. (Maybe the only way.) Then just
remove the source style template and replace it with something else (your
default Normal template or another template or even a file).
>
>
> >But with Word, you never know what's going to happen.
>
> I'm beginning to form that opinion as well.

Word does weird shit. I have never yet managed to get Word 4 Mac (any
version in the last 5 years) to correctly add new words to the custom
speller. If I add the word "disagree", for example, Word presents
it later on in the spell checker as "dis agree" with a space in
between. What's with that? So basically you can only add single syllable
words to the spell checker custom dictionary. ? ? ?
>
> >
> >Which version of Word?
>
> XP.

Yeah, but which version of MS Word (Office)?

>
>  /m

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