I recognize that language is part of text formatting. Why is pasted text marked German? More importantly, how can I stop that from happening, other than CTRL+A and selecting the language from the Language tool on the Review tab after every paste? ![]() In Language Preferences, English is the default. I've only opened about a half dozen distinct Word documents since installation, and none of them were in German. I've never used this computer for German correspondence and never set interface languages to German. copying the instructions on this page) or Wordpad or even a browser's own chrometext when all its settings are English, and when I paste it in, it's marked as German. Then, I can copy English text from any other program - it could be a browser on an English page (e.g. For those encountering this issue who might not know/remember how to check for this, including myself as OP years later, here's a screenshot, focusing on the second checkbox at the bottom: "Detect language automatically" is turned off. ![]() I can do CTRL+A to select all, and in the Review ribbon -> Language group, choose Language -> Set Proofing Language and "Mark selected text as" English.
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