Anyone familiar with current Microsoft Office proofing tools for Russian?

[Richard Robin]

*Paul B. Gallagher: *There's a setting in MS Word 2003 under Tools |
Language | Set Language... [ ] Detect language automatically, and I have it
disabled in Normal.dot because it's too stupid for my taste.  This way, as
long as I'm typing with the Cyrillic keyboard, it marks everything as
Russian, and when I switch back to the English keyboard, it marks everything
as English. I can always go back and apply ad hoc formatting to things like
"компания «ABC Corp»" and "CuSO4"as needed.

Does Office 2007 let you do that, or does it insist on making its own
guesses as to what language you're in?

*Richard Robin: *By default Word 2007 "detects language automatically." That
is probably why my version of Word 2007 makes random mistakes as to what
language I am typing in. I agree with you: never let Word try to be smarter
than you. I just disabled that "feature," (Review => Set language =>
Automatically Detect Language), and now Russian is spell-checked as Russian
and English as English, even in a forest of mixed text.

-Rich




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Richard M. Robin, Ph.D.
Director Russian Language Program
Technical Advisor, GW Language Сenter
The George Washington University
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