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Hey... seems that some "smart guy" though that would be "smart" to switch language of word (and other application) in relation of the language of your keyboard input.
Seems that office for windows has an option called "Automatically switch keyboard to match language of surrounding text" that change the language of your document when you switch your input keyboard. It also seems that option is by default ON in office for Mac and there it no way to turn it off.
I don't really think this is smart or wise because... I'm Spanish, I bought my Mac on Spain a few years ago. It has a Spanish SHAPEd keyboard. I say shaped because... keyboards don't have language. Are just a device to input keys on a computer and those keys could form different words in different languages. It's true they are shaped with the keys more common use in some languages, but they don't have language. Anyhow... my problem is, I don't live anymore in Spain, I live in Finland, and I still use my computer, with my spanish shaped keyboard. However, I have my OSX in english and I mainly use english as my communication language and the language in my documents. With my spanish shaped keyboard on my mac I perfectly can write in english (and in spanish if it's needed, for example to write an email to my friends). So... why would I change the input language of my keyboard when with shape all the key correspond with the letters and sight they are labelled and I can find all the letters and sights I need to use in english??? Well seems that some ***** at microsoft thought that this would be useful because when you decide to write in other language... you usually change keyboards. OF COURSE, even more if you have a laptop...
Is there anyway to override this? Is time I put as a default language English US it changes to Spanish... because it deduces that since I'm using a spanish keyboard and I have english (US) as my OSX language I would be writing in spanish, not in english. It doesn't happen if I choose English (CAN)... It keeps perfectly as default language for all the documents... but I really don't thing this is the point.
So please fix this!!!! You did great work with Office 2016 for Mac, but this is ruining it!
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Happy to hear that at least this workaround worked of you. It's not totally perfect, but it's something.
Are there any updates on this subject as of May 2016? I recently switched from Windows to OSX, and using a Norwegian keyboard but I'm studying in USA for the next ~5 years, and this is driving me nuts.
It weirdly seems like switching Word office to English (UK) is working for the time being, but I'd prefer spell checks in the language I'll actually be using.
did you read the whole thread? I've already stated a solution. You have to create a personalise keyboard layout with Ukele. In your case Nowegian shaped but with english language.
No updates nor any solutions, just a workaround with a third party app. Seems that it just doesn't cross the mind of the Microsoft guys that there are people in the world working simultaneously in multiple languages...
yeah... it's really disappointing, but they aren't the only ones. When you are living overseas, it's really common for google, or apple, or any company that you speak your living country language.
I live in Finland, I'm Spanish, and I develop most of my life in English (my computer is in English and most of my things are written and spoken in english) I'm so fed up with google feeding me messages in Finnish instead of my default language (english)... or trying to buy something in the apple store in Finland and only Finnish or Swedish is available. The same with Tom Tom, I have to ask to transfer my account to UK because all the messages I received from then were in Finnish.
Besides, MS follow this pattern in windows to. I have in the office a windows 7 computer, in english but with finnish/swedish keyboard and sometimes it's a madness to write a document in English or Spanish.