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How to prevent MS Word from setting language based on System language and applying direct formatting?
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I've tried to find an answer, but I only find unsatisfying results - none of which explicitly solves my Problem, only workarounds.
For a different wording of my question, please scroll to the ...
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Annoying behavior when switching keyboard language between RTL/LTR
When I use the keyboard to switch the keyboard language while editing an RTL document (Arabic), MS Word also switches the direction and alignment of the paragraph, which is very annoying.
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Microsoft Word 2016 keeps defaulting back to English (United States)
At the bottom left of Word 2016, I see English (United States).
If I click on this, and select English (Australia), five seconds later it will revert back to English (United States).
I have ...
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Was able to insert a LTR word in RTL sentence in Word but when sentence length exceeds one line, everything gets shuffled again. How to fix this?
I was able to insert an English word in Arabic text on Word without shuffling the sentence parts [a recurring problem] by using the Unicodes specified in another answer in the stack overflow forum:
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Japanese IME is behaving strangely (MS Word 2013)
I'm trying to type Japanese inside my MS Word 2013 documents. However, the Japanese text appeared in a small draggable box, originally on the top left corner of my screen, instead of inline where I'm ...
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Spell checking in Word automatically turns off
I use Office word 2016, I installed two languages Persian and English. In an English document I turn on spelling checking via Review > Languages via the shown dialog box. I uncheck the "Do not check ...
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My Apostrophe Key is Making Commas
While using MS Word in Windows 7, when I type the ` key and if it's not at the end of a word, it turns into a ,.
I've never had this issue before and it's driving me crazy! I tried googling it to ...
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How to make word autocorrect English even the Mac is set to be French
I recently changed the language setting of my MacBook Pro 15 inch to French (Canada). One of the unexpected consequences is when I type my stuff in Microsoft Word, the autocorrect function highlights ...
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Word reverses word order when converting tabs to spaces
Here is a simple example:
I want this, but with the tabs replaced by spaces:
I get this instead:
With the words reversed.
Note that a similar thing happens if I just change the text direction when ...
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Writing mixed text in Microsoft Word
In Word, while writing japanese using a japanese font sometimes I have to write also some romaji, and when I do it automatically switches to a different font for that text only.
This is particularly ...
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Shortcuts don't work in Microsoft Word 2013 [duplicate]
I have English Windows 8, English Office 2013 and a few keyboard languages.
When I set the English keyboard and start Word, shortcuts work. But when I change the English keyboard to other languages ...
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