From: mike 

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:34:09 -0500, RobertB  wrote:

>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)?

Office XP

 /m

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