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June 28

google.co.jp

on Firefox, Opera, and Chrome, how can I set all Google Domains to .co.jp ? --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 02:29, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

One way might be to use a VPN with an exit node in Japan, giving you an IP that geolocates there. Elizium23 (talk) 02:33, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What's the reason you want to do this? If you want pages in Japanese, you can have your browser request Japanese-language pages in the Accept-Language HTTP header, but whether the site complies is up to the site. I'm sure there are browser add-ons to let you do this per-domain. There might be something you can set in cookies or your Google account if logged-in to tell Google to serve Japanese by default. If you use a browser add-on to just stick .co.jp on the end of any Google domain, that might break some Google stuff, because I think a lot of their stuff like the account management pages always shunts you either to google.com or .google, but I'm not certain. Ultimately this is all up to how Google has things set up to work on their end. --47.146.63.87 (talk) 19:46, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MS Powerpoint 2019

I have MS Powerpoint 2019, and " File | Options | Language " is 'English (United Kingdom) <preferred> Proofing installed'. And yet it always does spellchecking using English (United States). What do I have to do to get it to use British English? -- SGBailey (talk) 20:33, 28 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SGBailey: On the MS website, it says this: "(1)Click or tap where you're going to add text, or select the text that you want to mark as a different language. (2) On the Review tab select Language > Set Proofing Language. (3) Select the language you want to use. (4) Select OK." Hope this helps. RudolfRed (talk) 00:10, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'm afraid it doesn't help. I don't want to select a different language for a small amount of text. I want to make the langauge it uses British English. If I want to do an American quote, THEN I would do what you suggest to select American English. How do I set Powerpoint to British English? -- SGBailey (talk) 06:44, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SGBailey, the proofing language is set on selections. If you want to set a whole document to BrEn, then press Ctrl-A to select all, then set the proofing language. Elizium23 (talk) 06:48, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(An aside: EVERY microsoft support page I have found says effectively "make the setting that I am using and it will be the langauge that I want" - except it isn't and this applies to many other people too. And lots of "you can change the language for small bits of text". Maybe this is another "Microsoft has it wrong" and won't admit it scenario? -- SGBailey (talk) 06:54, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't want to set the DOCUMENT to BrEn - well I do, but - I want to set POWERPOINT to default to BrEn. And if I want any other language - AmEn, Ger, Fr - THEN I would want to select it. If I have to, I could do it on a "per document basis, but that is a distinctly poor user interface. @E23 I'll try what you say and see. However the ONLY Proofing language I have installed is BrEn. I do not have AmEn. And yet it only does AmEn. Frustrating. -- SGBailey (talk) 07:00, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@E23 No, that doesn't work. I click on a sheet thumbnail in the left column. I press Ctrl-A and they all get highlit. I select " Review | Language (in Language group) | " Then the set proofing language option is greyed out. It is available on a slide by slide basis, but to have to set the language of each slide individually is terrible. -- SGBailey (talk) 07:09, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

SGBailey, try setting View | Outline mode first and then doing the same procedure. Elizium23 (talk) 07:31, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@E23, Now that (appears) to have worked. It let me select the whole document and it let me set the langauge and it allowed BrEn as an option AND when I clicked default it said it would make BrEn the language for all future presentations too. So IFF this has done what it says it has - I am dubious based on prior experiences - then you will have answered my question. So - many, many thanks. -- SGBailey (talk) 07:38, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

On a related but different point. How can you make it REDO a spellcheck from scratch - ignoring all the "Ignores" you have typed etc? And how can you find where you have set a different proofing language? -- SGBailey (talk)

I found it " File | Options | Proofing | Recheck Document ". -- SGBailey (talk) 07:57, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]