So according to him, this was the default setup. all have entirely separate programs installed on their individual work stations to allow them to do so.

I asked him about this, and he said that actually, when they installed this new OS on our systems, it did indeed default to this option, because it's not something he selected since it's not a feature that would have any common application at our workplace - in fact, the very few departments here (I work at an art museum) who might need to use Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc.

I'm curious how this makes Microsoft stupid.īy coincidence, the IT guy here at work happened to be walking by my office just now. Response by poster: Whoever setup your computer has to specify this during setup, or somebody has to use the process described to add languages and turn this feature on. So what's up? Is this some crazy, obscure bug, or am I overlooking something really obvious? (For what it's worth, it's happened a handful of times to coworkers as well, and none of us can figure out a fix.) posted by scody to Computers & Internet (15 answers total) 1 user marked this as a favorite Which is, of course, a total pain and means that I'm losing any text that I hadn't saved yet. So far, the only way I've been able to get out of this is to close out of Word entirely, then open it back up and start again. Weirdly, this will also happen if I go into 'Save As' and attempt to type a filename - even THAT converts to Asian characters. I'll even highlight all the text and click on 'English (U.S.)' again just to make sure. Once this happens, it renders the entire document this way - that is, I can't just move my cursor to another part of the page and start typing in English again the entire document now starts automatically converting letters to Asian characters.Įvery time this has happened, I have gone into Tools > Language > Set Language and determined that, yes, the whole document is set in English (U.S.) by default. meaning that it doesn't seem to be a result of my accidentally having toggled some sort of formatting switch (and also which means that simply hitting 'Undo' doesn't do anything). This will happen, sometimes literally in the middle of a word, without my having gone into any toolbar or menu to change formatting, etc. When this happens, the document seems to 'freeze' me out of typing any further text in English.

I'll be typing in a document (sometimes a new one, sometimes one that's already been saved), and suddenly instead of getting letters on the screen, I'll get a little miniature 'box' that converts every couple of letters into Asian characters. This has happened to me a handful of times at work lately (XP Professional 2002 MS Word 10.5.something).

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