I am trying to create a Power Point presentation and my spell check is messed up. Both in PowerPoint and on Word. It is set to French (Canadian) and will not allow me to change the settings back to English (US). Any idea what is wrong here? No matter what I do it will not change back. And I kinda need my spell check for without it I am hopeless when it comes to spelling.

I have no idea!!

U did check the character encoding in view im guessin?

Sounds like the dirty french have taken over your computer.

That I did.

Well help me fight the battle against them would ya?

I wish i could...but sometimes my spelling is so bad that it looks like french to begin with. And I really dont know to much about computers.

Sorry...

That seems quite strange. The Microsoft Office shell should allow you to load, reload, and change your spell-check preferences and have those preferences be global (i.e., extend to all the MS applications without you having to do anything else).

Did you try opening Word, then clicking on Tools --> Language --> Set language, and checking "English"...?

If you've already done this and it's still not working, try right clicking on the Windows taskbar, then click on "toolbars" and then "language bar". Using the language bar you SHOULD be able to set a default language.

Good luck! Let me know if it's not workin. yours in Chaos, Scarlett

It's all good, I still like seeing your presence on my board.

My computer froze and when I rebooted it all went back to normal. Thank you

Hurrah! :)

Yes, Hurrah for my spell check to fix, but not hurrah for all my stuff to be lost.

Where'd you go?

You lost all your work...? Are you sure...? if your system crashes and you're working on something, there is usually somewhere a backup copy of what you were working on.

In Microsoft word or other MS application, go under Tools --> Options --> File locations, then look at what it says under "autorecover". That is the directory you want to look in for your autosave files. Most of these applications are automatically set to auto-save every few minutes.

And if you were working in Word or Power Point, if you just open the program after rebooting, and you were working on something before the crash, it will ask you if you want to look at your auto-recover files.

I don't know what version of these apps you were using but that is a very old feature that has been around for a long time, since at least the early 1990s--unless you manually delete a file, it will stay on your computer. It's on there somewhere.

If you did manually delete these files then look in the trash can for them. Deleted files stay in the "recycle bin" and can be restored in one click, until you empty the recycle bin.

Good luck! xoxo

Cyber space.

Hows that working out for ya? Meet any cute girls?

Loads darling.

Sweet....take sum pictures for me would ya?

Hmmm what kind of pics?