Changing the multiple languages set in a document to 1 language

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Changing the multiple languages set in a document to 1 language

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I am trying to parse through the document.xml file that is created by a word document. The document has been modified by different people. There is a value in an column that displays in the word document as 0x03 but when I check the document.xml I see

                    &lt;w:r w:rsidRPr="00811BF7"&gt; 

                        &lt;w:rPr&gt; 

                            &lt;w:rFonts w:eastAsia="DengXian" w:cs="Times New Roman"/&gt; 

                            &lt;w:szCs w:val="21"/&gt; 

                        &lt;/w:rPr&gt; 

                        &lt;w:t&gt;0x&lt;/w:t&gt; 

                    &lt;/w:r&gt; 

                    &lt;w:r w:rsidRPr="00811BF7"&gt; 

                        &lt;w:rPr&gt; 

                            &lt;w:rFonts w:eastAsia="DengXian" w:cs="Times New Roman"/&gt; 

                            &lt;w:szCs w:val="21"/&gt; 

                            &lt;w:lang w:eastAsia="zh-CN"/&gt; 

                        &lt;/w:rPr&gt; 

                        &lt;w:t&gt;03&lt;/w:t&gt; 

                    &lt;/w:r&gt;

It looks like the w:lang is set for the "03" only. There is multiple instances of this throughout the document. Is there anyway to remove this?

Andy

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Answer 1

Charles Kenyon 167.8K Volunteer Moderator

In Word, not XML, select the entire document and set the proofing language.

Turn off the option to automatically detect language.

Is there some reason you need to work on the XML?

If so, I would recommend asking in Stack Overflow detailing what it is you are doing. Add a tag for XML.

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Answer 2

I have tried this and it does not change the XML.

I am working on the XML because it is used by a python script that I do not maintain. I have modified the script to ignore the differences in language settings already.

I would like to know if there is a way I could have removed all of the <w:lang w:eastAsia="zh-CN"/> settings from Microsoft Word.

Andy

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