Default Language for appt.

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Rudi

I received a template from our company in France. When I
use it I have to change each text box language to US
English. I have tried to set the default language,
changed the language in the Slide Master and tried to
Update the autoshape properties.

When I add text to a text box it goes back to French,
regardless of my attempts as above. I have to go an
selet allthe text and change the language again.

Can anyone help please?
Thanks,
rudi.
 
Hi Rudi,

The "default language" setting in PowerPoint is the language setting that
PowerPoint use when it encounters text entry where no language ID can be
determined (for example, when pasting text from a source <such as Notepad>
where language information is not embedded in the text formatting).

When you are entering text via the keyboard, the keyboard language always
overrides the default language setting in PowerPoint. PowerPoint doesn't
have the language detection capabilities that Word does so it cannot tell
from the words that you are typing which language you really intended so it
determines the language for typed text from the keyboard language settings.

Since Word does not language detection you might consider entering most of
your text in Word, using it's Outline view (if most of your text is titles
and bulleted lists) and then, when done, using the Send to PowerPoint tool
(or save as *.doc and then open the *.doc directly from PowerPoint
File->Open dialog <choose "All outlines" as file type>). Since the language
setting is embedded in the text of the *.doc, PowerPoint will preserve that
language setting when the *.doc file is converted to a PowerPoint
presentation.

If you have a keyboard for the language that you want to use, then you
should use the "Regional and Language Settings" dialog to add that language
keyboard to your list of "Text services and input languages" and make sure
that it's the active text input language matches the keyboard that you are
using (and the language you want to input) when you are working in
PowerPoint.

If none of these workarounds work for your particular scenario/environment,
there's a KB article that describes how to change the language setting for
all text in a presentation to the desired language (after the fact).

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;245468&Product=ppt

If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that working
with languages in PowerPoint should be handled differently, don't forget to
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a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).

John Langhans

Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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