From: mike 

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)

>My guess is you could
>have overcome the problem by reselecting your default style for the
>text.

My default style was not there anymore.


>But with Word, you never know what's going to happen.

I'm beginning to form that opinion as well.

>
>Which version of Word?

XP.

 /m

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