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Why did Microsoft Word switch to French spell check on me?
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Mar 15, 2026267193 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I was editing a document in Office Word 2007 on Windows XP and suddenly all sorts of words are underlined as misspelled. I go into Word options and it talks about French dictionary! In the preferences, my primary language is set to and that is only language set. What is going on??? How can I get ba…
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Fix for: Why did Microsoft Word switch to French spell check on me?
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To fix issue like this in Microsoft Word where the Synonyms for a particular document is in different language or the proofing language/spell check is changed to French, Spanish, etc; First select all the document (shortcut Ctrl + A) and navigate to…
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