Language settings in Word

Question

If I start Word online, I see that the user interface is in Swedish, which is what I want. When I then start a new document, I see that the document language is Swedish (on the bottom page I see "Svenska (Sverige)" which is Swedish (Sweden). Everything is ok.

But when I start OneDrive, go to a folder and there want to create a new Word document, the user interface is in Swedish, but the bottom of the page says "Engelska (USA)" which is English (USA). What language settings dictates this? Where can I change it?

And further: where can I disable the spell check and have it as the default setting?

Yet further: I consider changing i to I a spell check. Disabling spell check should prevent automatic change of i to I. This is the main reason why I need the document language to be something else than English by default, no matter how I create a new Word document online. I can live with documents being set to English language by default, if the spellcheck could be disabled by default. And "i" would not be replaced by "I"!

I might need to point out that I use Swedish, Finnish and English daily. If you use three languages daily, you don't care very much for spell checking. It is more convenient to have all spell check functions disabled by default **** than having to disable them or having to switch language for each new document!

Answer 1

hi johan,

i wonder if you can click on "engelska (usa)" , and then change the language as below. please also mark the “don’t check spelling” box. based on my test, it can resolve two situations you mentioned (but there is no such an option to disable the spell check function for all word document in office 365, and thanks for your understanding). will you give it a shot?

  

besides, as our forum focuses on office 365 for business online services, it is suggested you post these office online questions in ms dedicated office online forum. to post a new thread there, click participate>ask a question.

answers.microsoft.com/.../officeonline-word_online

thanks,

april

Answer 2

I can do what you suggest. But my problem is that I have to do it for each new document I start by creating a new Word document in OneDrive. What I'm asking is how to set the default language for each new document. Scrolling down the huge list of languages is not fun to do for each new document. I want the language to be set once for all future documents. And that language to be anything but English, since I can't disable the spellcheck by default, nor the automatic changing of i to I.

Another thing is that your suggested change seems to have an effect only on sections of text, not the whole document. I hope you understand why I find it extremely annoying and not user friendly that one can't disable the spellcheck for all documents. Someone has developed the spell check and someone has mistakenly thought it should be on all the time. I hope my complaints will reach the developers.

I tried to go to the forum you linked to, but I couldn't log in there. This is the forum that Office365 took me to, when I searched for help to this problem. And this forum does recognise me.