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From: Karlen Communications
Date: Apr 6, 2017 11:30AM

I've had a problem with Word over the 2013/2016 cycle where the language of some parts of my documents get switched to FR instead of EN even though they are EN words. I know this because my screen reader starts reading EN words as FR and the dictionary used to spell check suddenly changes to FR. If you go to the Review Ribbon, Language and choose Set Proofing Language, there is a check box to automatically detect languages which I've unchecked and this seems to help.

To be on the safe side, I usually select my document and go through the Review Ribbon to set the default language for the entire document to EN just before I convert it. Doesn't take long, a few keyboard commands, but can save a lot of time in Acrobat.

Cheers, Karen