On 25/04/2008, John R. Sowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed that my punctuation was weird (left quote at the base line > instead > of being at the top of the characters). After checking the > options/customization, I found that the language had changed to Czech, for > western language, > > I corrected it, did not check "for this document only", closed the > program, > restarted it, checked and found the language changed back to Czech. I > checked my time zone to make sure I am not in Europe, no, Los Angeles. > I'm > in the San Francisco Bay Area, but that's close enough. > > Help? > > John
You don't say which version of OOo you are using nor which flavour of which Operating System. Depending on the OOo version, the Quickstarter might be getting in the way of the language change you are trying to make. Try this: - Quit all OOo components - Quit the Quickstarter - Open Writer and make the change you [correctly] described in your e-mail - Close Writer - Start the Quickstarter if it doesn't restart automatically - Check that your language setting has stuck If that fails and if you are on Windows: - shut down all OOo components & the Quickstarter - Rename the file "C:\Documents and Settings\Harold\Application Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\setup.xcu" to something that doesn't end in ".xcu". - Start Writer - Check the language & change it to what you want if it isn't already properly set - Start the Quickstarter if it doesn't restart automatically - Check that your language setting has stuck If this works you can delete the renamed file from above. If not then, sorry, I give up. Without actually sitting at your keyboard and playing - aka performing a forensic investigation - I'm stuck. Come back here with details of what you did and the results and hopefully someone else will be able to help. You should rename the above renamed file back to its original name, possibly deleting any new one that got created. Of course, the other question is how this situation arose in the first place. Have you done something to change the "Locale" as defined to your Operating System (which is where OOo gets its language settings unless you do something specific)? Have you written a Czech document and inadvertently changed your default template? Have your kids been playing with your computer? Hmmmmm. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
