I accidently changed the language on my iphone. How do I change it back to English? - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist. I am so glad to have found this. I just installed skype today on a new mac. I used skype on another mac and love it. But with this computer for some reason the chat window is all in html. Setting language preferences in a browser. Most desktop browsers have settings that allow you to check or change the language preference settings. But Safari will only send the top item with the Accept-Language header. If you select English (U.K.) in the preferences. How to Change the Keyboard Language Being Typed with a Keystroke in Mac OS X. You can hit the same keyboard shortcut again to switch back to English or whatever the other language setting is. Or, if you have more than two languages and keyboards added to the Mac, you hitting the keystroke will simply toggle to the next one.
With Office 2011 for Mac, you can check spelling and grammar in languages other than English. Word 2011 for Mac comes with foreign-language dictionaries such as Czech, French, Russian, and you can also change the ‘brand’ of English (UK, US, Australian). The default dictionary determines which language’s proofing tools Word uses for spelling and grammar. You can change Word’s default language dictionary:. Choose Tools→Language. The Language dialog opens, and you see a list of languages. Select the new language to use and click the Default button. A pop-up will appear to change the default language.
Click Yes to change Word’s default spelling and grammar checking language to the language you selected. Click OK to close the Language dialog. Update: This didn’t stick for some documents that I created and amended with this. Until the latest update, and now they seem to be sticking to the language I selected. Can you please advise how to make this change be permanent.
I have followed these steps at least 100 times since getting my mac. It removes the red underlining from words I have already changed back to Australian spelling. But the next time I type “organise” or “realise” (e.g.) in the same document or another one it changes the s to a z. I then have to follow the process again to get the word to be recognised. I need a way to be able to change the settings on the computer permanently so that the default language remains as English (AUS) for all office documents. If there is no way to do this I am going to have to throw this stupid computer in the bin as it is driving me insane!
Read the thread. This is the way it should work but it’s not sticking for many users, myself included. So after a bunch of messing around, I discovered that my standard Language setting (English/US) was set for Excel and Word, but PowerPoint for some reason was stuck on Polish.
Eventually, I went into both Word and Excel and changed the default something arbitrary (e.g. German), quit all apps, then went back into Word/Excel and changed back to English/US. THEN when I went back into PowerPoint, I changed the rogue Polish to English/US, quit, restarted, and it was stuck.
Hope this helps someone. Using Office/Mac 15.22 BTW. Hi all, I think I may have found the answer you are looking for with regards to Microsoft Office default language settings on Macs. I am currently using Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, Version 14.6.3. Mac OS X, Version 10.9.5. I have struggled with the same problem, constantly going in Word to Tools Language changing to UK making this default etc, only to find the next time I open a document or restart the machine it has changed back to US!
X-( However this has worked for me. Go to Launch Pad System Settings Language and Region, then add “British English” (or whatever your required language is) in the “Preferred Languages” box and remove the “English – English” option. On the right side change “Region” to United Kingdom (or your required place). Lower down is “Keyboard Preferences” and in “Text” I changed to “Spelling: British English” (again insert your preferred choice).
On new Word docs this works, as I want it to, even after the machine has been restarted. Older documents made prior to this change may need copy / paste to a new doc, but at least this resolves the issue. Hope this helps and you haven’t thrown your Mac out the window yet! Mike Skinner. Who is behind Guide2Office? My name is Stephanie Krishnan and I'm passionate about the way that open source software and its community can help small businesses and individuals with their productivity and lives. One of the biggest arguments I get from business owners, however, is lack of support options.
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By default, Google sniffs your internet connection and redirects to a localized version. The URL to override this if you always want google.com is: Presumably this generates a special cookie and only lasts as long as you keep cookies. If you prefer to always use a different country site, you might want to get a search engine plugin specific to that site. Possibly available on the following site or someone could create one just for you.
Download a new copy of the Firefox program and save the disk image (dmg) file to the desktop.Firefox 20.0:.Trash the current Firefox application (e.g. Open the Applications folder in the Finder and drag the Firefox application to the Trash) to do a clean (re-)install.Install the new version that you have downloaded.Your profile data is stored elsewhere in the Firefox Profile Folder, so you won't lose your bookmarks and other personal data if you uninstall and (re)install Firefox. Hi, this may be confusing, the initial question from minkowski wanted English, instead of Polish (where minkowski is situated), not German.
Hegi108 joined the discussion and wanted German, not English. Hegi108 solved it, no surprise since situated in a German speaking country. Like minkowski, my system is US English, I am situated in a German speaking country, and I would like to have hegi108's problem, English Firefox. I downloaded English-US firefox about three times and the menu is still German. (mac) I installed the Quick locale switcher and switched my locale to en-US - locale seems ok, but the menu is still German. I modified general.useragent.locale to en-US in about:config, restarted, still everything in German.
I quit and deleted the prefs.js, still German. I deleted all cookies related to moxilla and firefox, still German. When I go to the third menu from right (Tools, I think Extras in German) Quick Locale Switcher, the language is set to English, but the first menu option is still 'Restore default de-DE'.
Same when I go to the bottom right and click the language flag, I get the option Restore default (de-DE). Under Extras (Tools?) Sprachen (Languages), there is only one language - German. So one possibility could be, how do I get firefox to change this default to en-US?
Help appreciated. Hi, this may be confusing, the initial question from minkowski wanted English, instead of Polish (where minkowski is situated), not German. Hegi108 joined the discussion and wanted German, not English. Hegi108 solved it, no surprise since situated in a German speaking country. Like minkowski, my system is US English, I am situated in a German speaking country, and I would like to have hegi108's problem, English Firefox. I downloaded English-US firefox about three times and the menu is still German.
(mac) I installed the Quick locale switcher and switched my locale to en-US - locale seems ok, but the menu is still German I modified general.useragent.locale to en-US in about:config, restarted, still everything in German. I quit and deleted the prefs.js, still German. I deleted all cookies related to moxilla and firefox, still German.
When I go to the third menu from right (Tools, I think Extras in German) Quick Locale Switcher, the language is set to English, but the first menu option is still 'Restore default de-DE'. Same when I go to the bottom right and click the language flag, I get the option Restore default (de-DE).
How Do I Change My Mac Language To English
Under Extras (Tools?) Sprachen (Languages), there is only one language - German. So one possibility could be, how do I get firefox to change this default to en-US? Help appreciated. You first need to download and install the en-US Firefox version or another preferred language version or language pack. After installing this version, possibly via a clean install and first delete the Firefox program folder then you need to make sure that the general.useragent.locale pref is set to the correct locale.
Note that this doesn't necessarily effect the language of pages send by a server as this can be caused by the order of installed languages in 'Tools Options Content Languages' and the server may do a reverse DNS look up to present you pages in the local language. You first need to download and install the en-US Firefox version or another preferred language version or language pack. After installing this version, possibly via a clean install and first delete the Firefox program folder then you need to make sure that the general.useragent.locale pref is set to the correct locale. Note that this doesn't necessarily effect the language of pages send by a server as this can be caused by the order of installed languages in 'Tools Options Content Languages' and the server may do a reverse DNS look up to present you pages in the local language.