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Word 2000 has French dictionary.

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by shanghai sam

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We pushed office 2K and Outlook 2K to our NT 4.0 Workstations (various models of DELLs--GX110s through GX240s and Latitude C-Series docking stations) using Altiris as the deployment tool. The result has been that some users now have French dictionaries in Word 2K. Close the window and it reverts back to English, but eventually, it goes back to French. The users that are affected are exhibiting different symptoms, but they all center around the French dictionary. The irony is, we pushed it to about 600 people and just these half dozen or so are having a problem... It's making us look bad to our users (like that's never been a factor before, eh?).

Any thoughts?

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by dklippert

This has happened before. I don't know of a one button fix, but here are some things to consider:

Do all of the users have their own Normal.dot? Do you have Roaming Profiles installed?

1) Check in Tools/Language/Language settings and make surethe checkbox to autodetect the language is NOT active.

2) Go to Tools/Options/Edit and make sure AutoKeyboard switching is OFF.

3) In Control Panel/Keyboard/Language, which language is set as the default?

4) Check the setting in START/Programs/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Office Language Settings

by derek

If you are not using a standard normal.dot template, try going to tools -- options -- spelling & gramar. Click on the dictionaries button and select "English (U.S.)" or desired language in the box labeled laguage.

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