From: RobertB 

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. My guess is you could have
overcome the problem by reselecting your default style for the text. But
with Word, you never know what's going to happen.

Which version of Word?

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