Timeline for How do I change the language of all Powerpoint slides at once?
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| Mar 20, 2021 at 4:25 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 21, 2021 at 14:56 | comment | added | Endrju | @JérômeMEVEL annoying, isn't it? Especially that development of this function doesn't seem to be a rocket science... Cheers! | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 13:53 | comment | added | Jérôme MEVEL | Nearly 2021 and the issue described by @Endrju still remains. I hate office | |
| Dec 16, 2020 at 23:09 | comment | added | Piedone | As of the latest Office (Version 2011, part of Microsoft 365) the Outline trick doesn't seem to work at all. | |
| Oct 27, 2020 at 13:13 | comment | added | Zordid | It's absolutely CRAZY that this shit piece of software will not let me once and for ever switch the language used in a presentation deck for good. Yes, you can select all and change it - but every new slide again is presented with the wrong language set... | |
| May 13, 2020 at 15:52 | comment | added | Kai | Does not work for me as soon as I select multiple slides or even multiple elements on a slide I'm not able to select the language anymore. Maybe due to a very broken master slide, I don't know | |
| Jan 9, 2020 at 14:15 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| S Dec 10, 2018 at 14:50 | history | suggested | qubodup | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
first line comment irrelevant and confusing
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| Dec 10, 2018 at 14:38 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 27, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | Abram | The outline is now in the proper language, but the slides still show German when I click on text in the text boxes, and still suggest German language words when you click on words with red squiggly underlining. | |
| Sep 18, 2018 at 13:42 | comment | added | Lilienthal | Main limitation of this is that if someone in their infinite wisdom created custom text box instead of using proper Title+Content layouts, this just won't work. | |
| Jan 29, 2018 at 14:32 | comment | added | Exa | This does only work for existing slides. My PowerPoint just won't forget English as its spell check language, no matter what I do. As soon as I add a new slide, the new slide will have English set as its spell check language again. This must be a bug. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 7:09 | comment | added | trejder | This will not work for tables, text in graphic shapes and actually anything that contains editable text, but for any reason does not appear in outline view. I have a presentation where 95% of a content is such stuff and with your (otherwise great) solution I managed to change language of title and "thank you" slides. Pretty much bad as for "global" solution. Thank you, Microsoft morons, for giving us another useless piece of IT shit! :( | |
| Mar 15, 2017 at 20:22 | history | edited | Oliver Salzburg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Use KBD for KeyBoarD markup
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 19:42 | comment | added | mjp | As a further note, this worked for me however SmartArt (i.e. flowcharts etc) did not change language. These can be changed by clicking on the containing box for the entire SmartArt and changing the language using the option in the bottom right of the PowerPoint window | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 8:33 | comment | added | lucazav | @Endrju [Review] > [Language] > [Set Proofing Language...], click on your language and click on [Default..] | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 23:48 | comment | added | sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio | As compared to a solution with VBA that uses recursion, this is of much lower quality. It is very frequent to have text boxes and other shapes added which would not be changed by this solution. | |
| Jul 4, 2016 at 12:54 | comment | added | Gas | @Endrju You have to change language for PowerPoint in the Windows taskbar to make newly type text be in the new language. See details in my answer. It annoyed me a lot for such long time... | |
| S Oct 12, 2015 at 7:49 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add steps for PowerPoint 2013, which differed a bit from original answer.
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:04 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 9, 2015 at 14:06 | comment | added | mjaggard | Powerpoint is just shockingly bad isn't it? I actually miss using open office when I have issues like this. I'll be back to open office as soon as they support saving to a video. | |
| May 18, 2015 at 4:28 | comment | added | Maria Ines Parnisari | For the record, in Office 2013, the Language menu is in the Review pane (Set Proofing Language) | |
| Dec 5, 2014 at 9:05 | comment | added | Mike | Awesome! While not perfect, it certainly helps. I agree with @Endrju, why isn't this fixed yet?! | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | Endrju | Thanks for answer, but after changing the language, the newly typed text is still in the previous language (the default one). Moreover, if you go to the master slides, select the slide, you'll notice, that the language in the language bar is still the default one, and the menu to change it is greyed out. I'm getting crazy that it haven't been solved by Microsoft for so many years. | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 10:54 | vote | accept | liamzebedee | ||
| Mar 18, 2013 at 2:06 | vote | accept | liamzebedee | ||
| Aug 10, 2013 at 5:18 | |||||
| Mar 17, 2013 at 17:29 | history | answered | Mastergalen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |