Powerpoint spellcheck is stuck on French despite settings being set to English, is there any way to fix this?

Hi Andrew,

If your steps are correct, but underlines still appear, I suggest you try Steve's add-in or run the VBA code in the problematic file. The VBA code will bulk change the proofing language for all slides.

a. Go to the Developer tab (if you don’t see the tab, please go to File> Options> Customize Ribbon> tick Developer), Visual Basic, click Insert in the menu, Module, copy/paste the following VBA code

Option Explicit 

Public Sub ChangeSpellCheckingLanguage() 

    Dim j As Integer, k As Integer, scount As Integer, fcount As Integer

    scount = ActivePresentation.Slides.Count

    For j = 1 To scount

        fcount = ActivePresentation.Slides(j).Shapes.Count

        For k = 1 To fcount

            If ActivePresentation.Slides(j).Shapes(k).HasTextFrame Then

                ActivePresentation.Slides(j).Shapes(k) _

                .TextFrame.TextRange.LanguageID = msoLanguageIDEnglishUS

            End If

        Next k

    Next j

End Sub

b. Run the macro and check again.

Close the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window. Click the Developer tab> Macros, you should see a macro "ChangeSpellCheckingLanguage". Please select it and click Run.

After that, please check if you see the underlines.

For your reference:

MsoLanguageID Enumeration

Setting language for entire presentation all at once / Selecting all slides and all objects on all slides at once

We look forward to your response. Thanks for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

George | Microsoft Community Moderator

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for posting back and providing the test file.

Based on my test, some words' proofing language in the text box is French and others' are English (United States). This is the reason why the underlines show in some words.

For example, the selected word "windows"'s proofing language is French and the selected word "Dry"'s proofing language is English.

Based on the situation, I would like to confirm if you selected all content in the text box first, and then set the proofing language as shown in the gif below.

We look forward to your response. Thanks for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

George | Microsoft Community Moderator

Thanks for sharing the test file.

I tested it in my PPTools LanguageSelector add-in, the free demo version, which only "fixes" the first five or so slides in a file. It seems to have solved the problem. Where about half of the text in your original was set to French and half to US English, I was able to set it all to US English (could have been pretty much any other language though).

https://pptools.com/languageselector

Hi George,

I have tried all of the above and none have worked. Here is a test file to further investigate the problem!

This problem occurs on at least two other computers with two other profiles in my department.

My company restricts me from sharing files on OneDrive outside of our organization. I have uploaded it to google drive to share it with you.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y3UUC5IdDMvBqEhkZNeV_3HPbfUIjmgl/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113477192616692663524&rtpof=true&sd=true

-Andrew

Hi George,

Repairing the 'Microsoft App for Enterprise - en - us' requires admin permission, I am waiting on my IT department to grant me access for this. I will let you know the result once they do and share a file if the issue is still not resolved!

Thanks for the help so far!

-Andrew