Solved Word - cannot maintain settings

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

 

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!

 

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

 

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.

 

addressing the email.dot did the trick!

Thanks again!

cheers
Louise

 

Great!