# Word 2010 suddenly starts using French spell check rules
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 12, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052 "2013-08-12T17:41:52Z")
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052/1 "2013-08-12T17:41:52Z")
In the middle of a document, Word 2010 is flagging a lot of correctly spelled words as wrong. When I right-click to see what the error is, the suggested corrections are all French. It only happens in one document.
My settings are all for English, in Windows and in Word. It doesn’t even look like French is loaded.
My Google searches for this turn up loads of tips about how to spell check in French, but none on how \*not \*to spell check in French.
Any wisdom?
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### Author:  [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052/2 "2013-08-12T17:43:35Z")
Just the one document though? Never anything else, ever?
Sounds like a setting within that document- maybe it’s set to use Canadian?
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052/3 "2013-08-12T17:45:03Z")
Is the text tagged as French? Did you create the document from new, or did you re-use another document that may have had parts tagged as French?
Edit: Tools \> Language… \> Mark selected text as…
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052/4 "2013-08-12T19:06:43Z")
Just learn to live with it. _C’est la vie!_
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052/5 "2013-08-12T19:16:34Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Is the text tagged as French? Did you create the document from new, or did you re-use another document that may have had parts tagged as French?
This. Is the doc original with you, or from another author, or re-used? I hate sharing docs with people because they come in with all kinds of weird-ass settings.
Easy to fix, though, as directed.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052/6 "2013-08-12T20:47:13Z")
> [@Sunspace](#):
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> Is the text tagged as French? Did you create the document from new, or did you re-use another document that may have had parts tagged as French?
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> Edit: Tools \> Language… \> Mark selected text as…
This was the problem. I got the document from someone else, this part was tagged as French. Who knows why. But in 2010, the commands are Review-\>Language-\>Proofing Language.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/word-2010-suddenly-starts-using-french-spell-check-rules/666052/7 "2013-08-13T00:58:55Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#):
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> This was the problem. I got the document from someone else, this part was tagged as French. Who knows why. But in 2010, the commands are Review-\>Language-\>Proofing Language.
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> Thanks!
Cool! I’m using 2011 on a Mac, so maybe my commands are different.