Odd Word behavior Thread poster: Patricia Lane
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Hello techies,
This is a strange one...
I am translating a Word document using WF.
Whenever I type a word that begins with an "i", Word puts the "i" in uppercase and will not let me change it to lower case. The only solution I have found is to start with another letter and delete that first letter afterwards. This is obviously slowing things down!
No other Word document behaves this way and I see nothing in the autocorrect parameters that cou... See more Hello techies,
This is a strange one...
I am translating a Word document using WF.
Whenever I type a word that begins with an "i", Word puts the "i" in uppercase and will not let me change it to lower case. The only solution I have found is to start with another letter and delete that first letter afterwards. This is obviously slowing things down!
No other Word document behaves this way and I see nothing in the autocorrect parameters that could cause such behavior.
No other letter is involved...
Any brilliant ideas??
Thanks
Patricia ▲ Collapse
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If this is a Word and not WF problem, than probably due to the language set for this file, Word interprets lowercase "i", as some symbol that is usually changed, like the copyright symbol. Try changing the language of the file. If this doesn't help, turn off the "Replace text as you type" function which you can find in Tools > Autocorrect Options > AutoCorrect tab and see if it helps.
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Patricia Lane 
France
Local time: 12:05
French to English
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Thanks Henrik, turning that off seems to have done the trick.
Other interesting quirk in this file -- though I set the default language to UK English, it keeps flipping to Australian English (which I have never used), though this source file is in French!!!
I checked my calendar, we are not April Fool's day!
Patricia
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PAS
Local time: 12:05
Polish to English
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| replace as you type | Jul 15, 2007 |
No need to turn this off. Just scroll through the list of words that are auto-corrected, find "i to I" and remove it. If I recall correctly, you need to do this for every flavour of English that you use.
As for the document changing to different languages - whenever I work on documents that are known to have "travelled" extensively, I see all kinds of things - I've seen the document language on CV's changed to Finnish, Spanish, Czech, and I only work EN-PL!
When you sta... See more No need to turn this off. Just scroll through the list of words that are auto-corrected, find "i to I" and remove it. If I recall correctly, you need to do this for every flavour of English that you use.
As for the document changing to different languages - whenever I work on documents that are known to have "travelled" extensively, I see all kinds of things - I've seen the document language on CV's changed to Finnish, Spanish, Czech, and I only work EN-PL!
When you start working on your target document, mark the whole text using ctrl + A and change the language to target.
Also, you want to turn off the "detect language automatically" feature, because in my experience Word has never handled it too well.
HTH,
Pawel Skalinski
[Edited at 2007-07-15 10:45] ▲ Collapse
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| Do you select all text (Ctrl+A) before setting the language? | Jul 15, 2007 |
If you do, and it still changes to Australian English when you type, uncheck the "Detect Language Automatically" checkbox in the language dialog-box. This may help, though I am not sure. Recently I have an impression that Word lives its own life, and sometimes you need to be very careful to guess what Word wants you to do, not to mention that it never does what you want.
It's not April Fool's day but it's very hot, at least here, in Armenia:)
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Patricia Lane
France
Local time: 12:05
French to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Yup, did that, and selected UK EN as well as instructing to use that as the default language. It is still reverting! Do you think it may be a macro?
Thanks for the help, you two!
Patricia
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Patricia Rosas
United States
Local time: 03:05
Spanish to English
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In memoriam
Patricia Lane wrote:
Whenever I type a word that begins with an "i", Word puts the "i" in uppercase and will not let me change it to lower case. The only solution I have found is to start with another letter and delete that first letter afterwards. This is obviously slowing things down!
Patricia,
Last week, I was using Word (alone, without Word Fast) but with Dragon Naturally Speaking (and a Spanish file into English). I have an autotext entry for the pronoun "I" set so that "i" (a single word) is automatically reset to "I". However, in two files I was working on, ANY word that BEGAN with "i" was automatically changed to "Ixxxx".
The documents were short so I just went ahead and backspaced out the wrong letter. But now that I've read your post, I'm really wondering and a bit worried! I'll try removing "i" --> "I" from the autotext list if it starts again, but could something else be going on?
Best,
(another) Patricia
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I've noticed that sometimes Word doesn't keep the assigned language, especially when there are many styles and different formats in the document. Check the styles, maybe the problem is there. Word may be retaining their features and ignoring the overall formatting. Open the styles panel - Format > Styles and Formatting, and at the bottom, in the "Show" filed select "Formatting in use". Then keep the mouse over each style and check the language. If the problem is in one of the styles, you can cha... See more I've noticed that sometimes Word doesn't keep the assigned language, especially when there are many styles and different formats in the document. Check the styles, maybe the problem is there. Word may be retaining their features and ignoring the overall formatting. Open the styles panel - Format > Styles and Formatting, and at the bottom, in the "Show" filed select "Formatting in use". Then keep the mouse over each style and check the language. If the problem is in one of the styles, you can change the settings of that style.
If this doesn't help, you may need to assign the language in portions. Select one small portion of the text that has identical formatting and assign the language. See if it works. If yes, select a larger portion and do the same. Right after hitting OK check the language, before typing anything. If it has retained the language, than it's fine. If it hasn't, than you have to select a smaller portion.
If this doesn't help, save the file as RTF (Rich text format) document, close and re-open it.
And finally, if nothing helps, you can just get rid of formatting, which will probably resolve this problem too. If retaining the original formatting is not essential, you can do this: select all (Ctrl+A), then hold down the Ctrl key and hit the spacebar. See if it works. And finally, if this one also fails, just copy the whole text, open a new blank document and Paste Special > Unformatted text, or save the file in plain text format, close and re-open again. ▲ Collapse
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Ken Cox
Local time: 12:05
German to English
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| another WF tip | Jul 16, 2007 |
If you are working on a document with WF (WF active) and you open another Word document and position the cursor anywhere in the other document, when you return to the first document WF will often 'lose context' and start applying default styles to target text (and who knows what else it does in this case). The solution to this is to stop WF, select 'Service' in the WF dialog, and click 'Reorganise'. After the TM has been reorganised, WF will behave properly again (i.e. apply the local style at... See more If you are working on a document with WF (WF active) and you open another Word document and position the cursor anywhere in the other document, when you return to the first document WF will often 'lose context' and start applying default styles to target text (and who knows what else it does in this case). The solution to this is to stop WF, select 'Service' in the WF dialog, and click 'Reorganise'. After the TM has been reorganised, WF will behave properly again (i.e. apply the local style attributes of the source text (paragraph formatting and font settings) to the target text and (presumably) apply the TM target language attribute to the target text). ▲ Collapse
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Patricia Lane
France
Local time: 12:05
French to English
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TOPIC STARTER
This file is definitely strange.. But it finally decided to accept the UK English language as default (my stubbornness in repeating the process maybe helped!! -- the styles were not an issue apparently..), the "I" issue got solved thanks to Henrik, but I can't wait for this project to be done. Even with only this file open, just Word and WF running, it takes up all the computers resources and the unit heats up like crazy. This does not happen with any other Word file - or even when I am doing ... See more This file is definitely strange.. But it finally decided to accept the UK English language as default (my stubbornness in repeating the process maybe helped!! -- the styles were not an issue apparently..), the "I" issue got solved thanks to Henrik, but I can't wait for this project to be done. Even with only this file open, just Word and WF running, it takes up all the computers resources and the unit heats up like crazy. This does not happen with any other Word file - or even when I am doing something creative with heavy graphic programs running concurrently.
Does anyone know how to check if there is a hidden macro somewhere in this Word file? I remember once a long time ago some similar memory hogging behavior and it was indeed caused by an undesired macro.....
Time to let the computer cool....
Patricia ▲ Collapse
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llnnhh
Local time: 17:05
English
| Fix the error | Jul 17, 2007 |
Hi Patricia, pls try to do the following steps then you will get the result
In a Word document, go to Tool-> AutoCorrect a window will appear. In Replace box, type i the u will see the some lines with i in the window below. Choose a line that have i in replace box and I in "with" box, choose Delete button then press enter. Press OK to close the window then u try to type again.
Hope this tip will help u.
BR
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