Change Language For Powerpoint

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Although the presentation is written in English, the language for spell checking is set to Canadian French. I’m trying to change the language to English, but even if I select all the slides and select a new element on the Language dialog box, the language of the text boxes remain the same. Jan 28, 2021 How do you change the language of all slides in PowerPoint? Select the shapes/slides to change, then from the PPT Productivity top ribbon, click Set Language button located in the Text group. Click on the Language button and Select 'set proofing language' 4. On the language dialogue box - Select 'English UK' or your desire language. At the bottom of the dialogue box - Click 'Set As Default' button. Then click 'OK' - You will see a message that your auto-correct language has been changed, just accept by clicking 'OK'. Subscribe Now:More:the PowerPoint language is somet.

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These instructions apply to Office for Mac 2016

  1. Open a new Word document
  2. Look at the Status bar* at the bottom of the document. You will see English (United States).
  3. Click on the word English, which will open up a list of languages. Right click on the status bar and check Language if you don’t see English, then click on English.
  4. In the Language window, choose the language you wish to work in. Set it as the default if desired. Click OK.
  5. The status bar at the bottom will now show the chosen language.
  6. View this animated GIF for directions:

*The status bar along the bottom of the Office 2016 window gives you information about the file you’re working on. The Word status bar, for example, tells you which page you’re on, how many pages are in your document, the language, and several other things. In PowerPoint, the status bar tells you which slide you are viewing.

Sometimes specific slides or parts of slides end up being in a different language to the rest of the deck, resulting in them showing red underlines for miss-spelling even though the spelling is correct, it’s just that spell check is expecting/checking based on it being a different language.

For example, this deck is in English, but it is showing these words as spelt wrong.

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If you select a specific text box you can see it is trying to correct into another language

With the text box selected, if you go to Review / Language / Set Proofing Language on the PowerPoint ribbon

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You can see it is set to French

Simply set the language back to the appropriate language, in this case, English

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You can highlight multiple text boxes to do this one for all the boxes.

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I haven’t yet found a way to do this at the “deck” / all slides level. If you have one please let me know and I will update the blog.