alexpgp | Strange Word bug...

From time to time, when working on Russian documents compiled in Word, I run into patches of text that Word thinks are French. This has never been much of a problem, as it has occurred only with scattered words, maybe one or two.

My current document, which was generated from scratch, shouldn't have anything "French" in it (just English and Russian), but it does, according to the spell checker.

Doing a select-all and changing everything to English won't work, because then the spell checker will stop at every Cyrillic acronym and ask about it (since it'll think the acronym is a misspelled English word).

I hazarded the following a few minutes ago:

Edit|Replace

Find what: ^?
Formatted as: French

Replace with: ^&
Formatted as: English (U.S.)

Replace All

This changed the language of over 600 characters from French to US English! (FYI: ^? is Miscrosoft searchspeak for "any character," and ^& is searchspeak for "whatever 'Find what' is")

Do a spell check.

Three "French" words are found, for which I click "Ignore All."

With the spelling check completed, repeat the Edit|Replace.

Now, 750 characters are replaced.

On a hunch, click "Replace All" without quitting the dialog box.

Now, 9 characters are replaced.

I'm going to quit while I'm ahead, before something breaks for real and I'm left twisting in the breeze, sans final document.

Cheers...