Anyone familiar with current Microsoft Office proofing tools for Russian?

[David Powelstock]

Awesome tip, Paul. I recommend it to anyone who uses Word 2003 mostly for Russian and English and has encountered odd language detection results. (And, more broadly, assume that this works for all languages that have their own dedicated Windows keyboards.) I have always assumed, incorrectly it transpires, that I needed auto-detect ON in order for Word to recognize Russian vs. English. The results were often unpredictable and annoying. But this works perfectly. Occasionally I'll have to tell Word that something is in French or German or whatever, but auto-detect often got those wrong anyway. Thanks.
David Powelstock

Paul Gallagher: 
<snip> 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 "???????? 
«ABC Corp»" and "CuSO4"as needed.

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