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"Cobb-Zygadlo, Deanne" <[log in to unmask]>
I had a student come to see me today and show me two versions of a composition that she was working on. The first version, which her professor had given her feedback on, the articles and spellings were correct. The second version, which she had corrected (word choices, word order kinds of things), articles and spellings had changed, and she had failed to realize it had happened. She and her professor had asked me to figure out why. This is what I was able to determine:
1. She was saving her work as .doc, not .docx files (not sure why).
2. She was saving the file to her network drive which meant that when she re-opened a saved file, she needed to click "enable editing".
3. She had selected "Spanish" as her proofing language in the first version of the paper, but had left the "auto-detect language" checked. The second version of her paper was suggesting Arabic as the language (and that in itself is a complete mystery to me).
My suggestion to her was:
1. Save as .docx unless there is a reason to save a copy as .doc (like transferring between school and an older version of Word at home).
2. Uncheck the "auto-detect language" button in the language proofing settings.
3. Upon opening a document, always select all and double-check the proofing language, before doing anything else.
My instinct is that it is the auto-detect in Microsoft Office 2010 causing the problem, but have any others ran into this issue with their students? If you have, were these the steps that reconciled them, am I barking up the wrong tree, or is it still a mystery to you too? Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo
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Deanne Cobb-Zygadlo
Director, Language Resource Center
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
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