Proofing language

Question

I have set the proofing language in Word to be German but it does not correct the words when written wrongly. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

Make sure that the default proofing language in Office matches the display language in Windows. This is specific to Windows 10 (Windows 7 was a lot more flexible in this respect).

Note that you can alter the language in specific documents by modifying the appropriate paragraph styles (such as Normal) and/or by applying direct language formatting. This is often a necessary fix in existing documents, once you have successfully changed the default language for a template.

See also Suzanne S. Barnhill's article at http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/MasterSpellCheck.htm.

Answer 2

See http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/MasterSpellCheck.htm

Answer 3

Do you need more assistance?

Answer 4

Hi Christina,

This is most likely a proofing language problem. The "proofing language" is a key to several Word features including spelling and grammar and AutoCorrect. It is not an application-wide setting nor even a document setting; it is set at the character level!

To see if this is the source of your problem:

• Select (or create and select) a problem word.

• Then under the Review tab, click on the "Language" button.

• Pick "Select Proofing Language" from the short menu.

• Which proofing language is showing?

• If not German, change it to German.

• Then OK.

Does this make a difference?

If it does make a difference, then Ctrl+A to select all text in your document and repeat the language selection.

If the problem occurs regularly, it is probably a problem with one or more Style definitions. If this is the problem, write back for more help.

Try clicking on a misspelled word and pressing Shift+F1. You may see something like this:

Under Font formatting what does it say for Language?

Try checking the box at the bottom about style source.

I agree that you want to look at Suzanne Barnhill's article on the spelling checker. It is the definitive article.  The title is Mastering the Spelling Checker.

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. I am a fellow user.

I hope this information helps.

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Regards

Answer 5

Hi Christina, how are you, thanks for posting in our microsoft community, I recommend that you take a look to this information in the link below and see if it helps you:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/970826...

Hope above suggestions help you and good luck!