XP/Word 2000 – changing Region/language settings for one user – affect all?

Factual Questions
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Going through control panel and Word every time I need to switch between American and British English is a pain (and can be problematic).

If I create a new user, then go to that user’s control panel and Word options to change the region and language settings, will I be able to switch between users and not notice anything different on my regular account?

Sorry if this is noobish, but I’ve never shared a PC so am not familiar with the whole process. I’d just go ahead and try it out on my own, but switching between languages has issues—there are several places to check, and not everything sets back correctly (at least not for me).

Oh, merely going to tools>language>set language in Word 2000 doesn’t seem to cut it. Does anyone know if later versions of Office are more language-switching friendly?

Thanks,

Rhythm

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The Windows settings should be unique to the user, being saved in the user-specific part of the registry, but with Word 2000 it depends upon where you have Normal.Dot and (possibly) Winword.Opt. If these two files are shared - if all users access them - then your Word settings will be common across all users.

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Wow, thanks!

Once I’ve created the new user, I’ll be bringing in a lot of configs to make staying in the user easier (e.g., set up all the mail accounts in Outlook, though to avoid conflicts I’ll set the new account to read/leave on server). I have a lot of custom file locations in Word already, so changing the local of the template directory shouldn’t be a problem. Hey, stop laughing!