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    Possible duplicate of Change the spell-checking language on a PowerPoint presentation
    – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio
    Commented Aug 31, 2016 at 7:06
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    It seems that the newest version of PowerPoint is especially buggy in this respect. I have a text box where I've changed the language of all text to language A. (The default language is B.) So when I start typing within that text box, the language automatically changes to B. I thought maybe changing the default language helps (having tried everything else) but no. Now the default language is A, the language of all other text in the text box is A (and I've restarted PP) but all new text still appears as B. So my only remaining question is: is there a way to switch proofing off altogether?
    – lebatsnok
    Commented Nov 8, 2017 at 9:45
  • Yes there is a way to turn of spell checking: support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/937422/… -- solved my problem!
    – lebatsnok
    Commented Nov 8, 2017 at 9:48
  • The comment by superuser.com/a/1096722/474383 is actually more relevant. Just changing the keyboard languages (in Windows, not PowerPoint) will make all the newly created text boxes adhere to that language.
    – Roel Vermeulen
    Commented Jul 19, 2020 at 15:44
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    The best solution, imo, is to save the presentation as XML and to replace language strings (e.g., "de-DE" with the desired language (e.g., "en-US"). It changes the language not just of normal slides, but also of master slides!
    – MrTomRod
    Commented Jul 15, 2023 at 2:56