Reply in English (U.S.)

[Henry Ashbee]

Using Outlook XP, Windows XP when I reply to an email
using Word as the email editor, it switches to English
(U.S.) instead of English (U.K.) which is used for new
emails. Any ideas.

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Henry,

Go into Control Panel/Regional and Language
Options/Languages/Details and set English UK as your
default language.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Dave Neve]

Hi

Can I pick you up on this one Cindy?

I think (and I've tested my idea) that even if you have programmed your
spell check for say English (UK), if replying to an English (USA) message,
the system is triggered to switch to the language that the message was
composed in.
I've seen this when switching between French and English where it is obvious
that my English dictionary (by default) cannot in theory check a reply in
French. Yet this is what it does so I assume the French dictionary has been
loaded automatically as the original message was in French.

By the way, I have XP.

What do you think? I am confused?

Regards

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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Dave,

I should note that I NEVER, EVER use Word as my email editor. It's quite
likely that an email written in one language also opens in Word in that
language for a reply. Just as any document formatted in another language will
still be in that language when you open it in another version.

And I will also admit that exactly what Henry's problem is wasn't clear to me
in that message. But if it's a question of changing the language format for a
reply to a different one than that of an original message (or document), then:

Tools/Language/Set language and choose the language you prefer. But it's
important to note that it probably won't be very "stable" unless the system
settings were 100% correct where the email was created AND on your own system.

(Frankly, I think the language formatting decisions made by MS starting with
Office 97 have been a catastrophe, but I still haven't been able to convince
the "Powers that be" this is the case. None of them ever have to work in a
multi-lingual environment!)

> I think (and I've tested my idea) that even if you have programmed your
> spell check for say English (UK), if replying to an English (USA) message,
> the system is triggered to switch to the language that the message was
> composed in.
> I've seen this when switching between French and English where it is obvious
> that my English dictionary (by default) cannot in theory check a reply in
> French. Yet this is what it does so I assume the French dictionary has been
> loaded automatically as the original message was in French.
>
> By the way, I have XP.
>

Cindy Meister