Word for Mac

[Katz, Michael R.]

Eureka!! It works for me!! Many thanks.

Michael Katz
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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] on behalf of Avram Lyon [ajlyon at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:50 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Word for Mac

There is however an option in the Word preferences to disable this
questionable feature. Look for "Match font with keyboard", which is
usually the culprit. Disable it and things might improve.

Hope this works.

Best wishes,

Avram Lyon
UCLA

2010/8/25 Kevin Moss <moss at middlebury.edu>:
> I have exactly the same problem for years, and in BOTH Word 2004 and Word
> 2008, both with updates, so that doesn't fix it. It seems if you start a
> document in Russian it's less likely to happen. It is indeed annoying when
> you're editing a long document to have to switch into Russian every time,
> but that seems to be the case. (I'm using OS 10.4, maybe it's solved in
> newer versions)
>
> You don't have to go back to the flag, though, as someone pointed out in the
> earlier thread: you can set the mac to toggle between the last two keyboards
> by using apple-spacebar.
>
> KM
>
> On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Aura Young wrote:
>
>> After all of this discussion about Macs, I'd love it if anyone could shed
>> some light on my
>> problem: I have Microsoft Word for Mac (2004, version 11.5.6). Whenever
>> I'm typing in
>> Russian and move my cursor, it automatically switches back to the Latin
>> alphabet. Then I
>> have to go back to the little flag at the top of the screen and switch
>> back to Russian. The IT
>> guys at school didn't have an answer for this problem, and I can't figure
>> it out.
>>
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