If you have "Detect language automatically" checked in Tools | Language |
Set Language, I'm guessing that after the first paragraph it does indeed
"give up" and applies "Do not check spelling or grammar" (no proofing) to
the rest of the text. You can arrange this on purpose by adding that
property to the styles you use for your German documents.
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"Scott Meyers" <usenet[ at ]aristeia.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > I'm working on a document in German using the American version of Word
2002.
> Unsurprisingly, Word puts its red squiggly line under pretty much every
word in
> the first paragraph. What is surprising is that it doesn't flag any other
word
> in the document as misspelled. It's as if it gives up after the first
> paragraph. I'd like to have it spell-check the German, but my
understanding is
> that that's an extra cost option, and I don't want it badly enough to pay
for
> it. That being the case, I'd like to turn off spell checking for German
> documents. Once I get the kinks worked out of this document, I plan to
save it
> as a template for future German documents, but one of the kinks is that
Word
> seems intent on spell-checking the first paragraph only. Can somebody
explain to
> me why it's treating the first paragraph differently from all the rest?
Several
> subsequent paragraphs use the same style (Body Text), so I'm guessing it's
not a
> style thing...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
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