Yes I did, that's why I asked if there were any updates on the subject, like If anyone had heard anything from Microsoft or Apple, and not if a solution Existed.
Disable "Automatically switch keyboard to match language of surrounding text" option in Office 2016 Mac
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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2016-05-03T17:46:20+00:00 It isn't an Apple problem by any means. All the other apps work fine in Mac. It's only MS Office the one mixing up languages. It's a problem at app level.
On the other hand, I really doubt they are going to fix this issue, since it seems pretty hardwired in the apps. Windows apps also have this problem from even previous version.
My best bed is report it, not only here but, to MS feedback and pray for it to be fixed on the next big update.
Meanwhile... "survive" (I'm doing pretty well, or even better than before) with the ukelele workaround.