Solved Word - cannot maintain settings

[MadDogMugsy]

Hi Dreamboat - lol - figure you will know the answer to this one
(oops i see that Dreamboat is offline ... hoping someone else is as brilliant as she)

I am using Word 2000 (within Office 2000)

I cannot maintain my language settings

I want English/Canada ... but no matter what always defaults back to English / US

I tried deleting my normal.dot and changing my preferences on a new normal template ... but every time I restart, I default back to US English.

and the most bothersome ...

No matter what I do, my 'normal' style will always Auto Update which causes all kinds of havoc (I have to manualy check & change this setting in Format/Style/Modify before I start a new doc)

I figure I am approaching this all wrong.

Would you be able to give me steps to adjust my settings

thanks in advance
cheers
MDM
Louise

 

[Anne Troy]

Hi, Louise.

Thanks for calling me brilliant!!



Try the easy way first:

Close Word.
Start-Settings, Control panel, Regional settings. Change the language to English.

Lemme know!

 

[MadDogMugsy]

Thanks Dreamboat ... this worked!
I now have the "u"'s iback n my colour!

The style problem seems to be inconsistent ... it is okay in Word, but changes in Outlook & I have to manually adjust each time I reboot ... any suggestions here? (my software has all of the latest updates)

many thanks oh brilliant one

cheers
Louise

 

[Anne Troy]

Sorry!

Use Format-Style, Modify. Change the language. Make sure you hit Add to template, and make sure you uncheck auto-update.

Try finding email.dot, which is the default for Outlook email msgs....do the same.

 

[MadDogMugsy]

addressing the email.dot did the trick!

Thanks again!

cheers
Louise

 

[Anne Troy]

Great!