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Microsoft Word 2016 keeps changing the language when I add a footnote

My old computer had German as one of the languages (not the main one). I then copied documents to my current computer and the language has been English (UK) since the beginning.  I have been working on the same document for years and it has so many pages, images and tables so I am hesitant about copying and pasting to a new document.  I have been saving with "Save As" for new versions.

Whenever I add a new footnote, it reverts to German and a different font size.

So far, I checked:

  • the Office Language Preference to make sure editing, display and help languages are all English,
  • selected all (CTRL+A both the main text and the footnotes) in the word document and chose English (UK) from below
  • checked Computer Settings - Region&Language. It is English.

I am not sure what else to do. It is really annoying to fix it everytime.

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Here is an updated macro:

Sub StyleEnglishUK()
' Written 14 December 1017
' Charles Kenyon
' Intended to set all styles to English UK, proofing, not automatitically update
'
  Dim aStyle As Style
  On Error Resume Next
  For Each aStyle In ActiveDocument.Styles
  ' aStyle.AutomaticallyUpdate = False ' probably do not want this for TOC styles - future work
   aStyle.LanguageID = wdEnglishUK
   aStyle.NoProofing = False
  Next 'aStyle
  ActiveDocument.UpdateStylesOnOpen = False
  On Error GoTo 0
End Sub

The previous macro threw an error when it got to certain styles that do not have a proofing language attribute.

Volunteering to "pay forward" the help I've received in the Microsoft user community.

Charles Kenyon
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
wordfaq[at]addbalance[dot]com

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