Microsoft Word 2016 keeps defaulting back to English (United States)

Question

At the bottom left of Word 2016, I see English (United States).

If I click on this, and select English (Australia), five seconds later it will revert back to English (United States).

I have deselected Detect Language Automatically.

In Control Panel > Region, my Location is set to Australia, and my Format is too:

I also see:

How do I ensure English (Australia) stays current @ bottom left of Word?

Help appreciated.

Solution

The language displayed by Word does not behave the same as that displayed by Windows on the taskbar : It describes the language of the text at the current cursor position.

This means that it will change depending on where you are positioned in the document.

To set the entire documents to one language, select it all using Ctrl+A and then change the language using the bottom-left pane.

However, even that is sometimes not enough, as it may not set the language of the virtual character beyond the last character of the document. So, if you position to the end of the document via Ctrl+End, it is possible in some cases that your language will revert. If your document is one of those where this happens, avoid bypassing the end of the document.

Comments

[Charles Kenyon]

See my article on this subject on the Microsoft site: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/…