"Richard" wrote:
[Quoted Text] >I am currently using Word 2003 and someone has produced a template in
>German.
> I want to change all the styles to English. Can I do global change or do
> I
> have to go into each individual style and change the language there. I
> aploogise if this question is already here but I waited 30 minutes and it
> did
> not seem to appear so I have tried again. Thanks
The web forums seem to be down, so I doubt you'll see this. Anyway...
Depends on how the template bases styles on each other. Ideally (in my
philosophy), all your styles have a common base style, and you'd only have
to change the language of that one style, and it would be inherited down the
line.
Others have the phhilosophy that basing styles on each other is a Bad
Thing®, and then you'd have to change the language of each style
individually.
In both cases, it might be safest and best to just run a macro and change
the language in all styles. If you do want to hard-code it, that is.
By default (if you leave the language unspecified), Word uses whatever is
set as the Windows keybooard input language (control panel > regional and
language options > language tab), and it might be easiest to just run with
that.
BTW, the names of the built-in styles (like "Normal", "Heading 1", "Footnote
Text"...) will rename automatically, which is a good argument for using
them. Again, there are differing opinions...
Regards,
Klaus
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