Timeline for How do I change the language of all Powerpoint slides at once?
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| Apr 30, 2021 at 8:45 | comment | added | bers | @MatějRačinský no, you need to change the input language, not your keyboard layout. Windows is smart enough to distinguish between the two, so you can enter Spanish text with a French keyboard layout, and PowerPoint will check Spanish spelling. That is actually quite smart. To configure, in Windows 10 21H1, go to Language settings. You configure a list of Preferred languages at the bottom, and for each one, you can choose a (potentially different) keyboard layout. The language bar then allows you to switch between languages as well as betwen layouts independently. | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | Roel Vermeulen | If you find that this still doesn't work, create a new text box. Then change the language to another language, and then back to the one you desire. This worked for me. I had ENG (English) selected, but it was still creating text boxes in ES (Spanish). Then I changed to ES again, typed some text, and then changed back to ENG. Only now were the new text boxes in the desired language. Simply changing back and forth between languages might do the trick if it's still not working as specified here. | |
| Nov 23, 2019 at 13:47 | comment | added | Piedone | This is THE answer. I changed the preferred language to English with Hungarian keyboard. Nothing else worked well. If you don't do something like this then all your new English text will be all underlined even if you type in a text box that you previously select all-d to English. It's crazy. | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 21:38 | comment | added | Matěj Račinský | Wait, so I need to change my keyboard language if I want to have different proofing language? That's stupid. | |
| Jul 16, 2018 at 21:24 | comment | added | Gas |
@JohannesS. If you right click En in the task bar and select Settings.. you will see in Installed languages German (DE) and English (En), if you expand English, there will be Keyboards listed, expand Keyboards, and add your prefered German keyboard, probably remove English one also. I didnt try it, but should work in theory ;-)
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| Jul 16, 2018 at 12:53 | comment | added | Johannes S. | But that also changes the keyboard layout, doesn't it?... I want to type English text but I really want to keep my German keyboard layout.... | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 4, 2016 at 12:52 | history | answered | Gas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |