OneNote (OSX) Language Proofing

Anonymous
2014-03-31T21:44:22+00:00

Hey everyone, 

I have OneNote for my MacBook (the default language is English) and when I set the proofing language to Spanish (I'm studying at a University in Chile), it seems to go back to English after a few minutes of writing. I know there is a solution for this with OneNote for Windows, but has anyone found a solution for the OSX version? 

Thanks,

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-12-27T23:47:22+00:00

    Hey everyone.

    We are looking at adding a default proofing language option so that once you set it all future pages will use that. If you want to have that please go vote here.

    https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327165-onenote-for-mac/suggestions/12933318-set-default-proofing-language

    Today you can change the proofing language for an entire page by selecting the page (or selecting multiple pages) on the page list, then opening the proofing UI from the tools menu.

    Also when you are typing in a paragraph and hit ENTER in the same outline we don't change the proofing language, if you use the down arrow then we do revert back to the default.

    Ryan, this answer is unacceptable garbage.

    This is a bug. It's not something that needs an "improvement". It needs FIXING***.*** Please stop lying to your customers and actually do something about it.

    MacOS has a settings panel for configuring preferred languages: System Preferences -> Language & Region -> Preferred Languages.

    MacOS also has an API for retrieving these languages: NSSpellChecker.availableLanguages

    But instead of using the supported API, your genius engineers decided to try to infer the proofing language from the keyboard layout instead!?

    It blows my mind that, not only do you hire engineers so utterly incompetent and ignorant to create your software, but that your QA and management are so equally incompetent that:

    1. They don't catch the bug before release.
    2. When it's pointed out, they don't even accept it is a bug.
    3. They leave it unfixed for years.
    4. They suggest voting for an "improvement" that won't even address the underlying bug; it'll just provide a workaround.

    We don't need a workaround. We need you to tell your engineers to take a 101 introduction to macOS programming and use the correct APIs.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-04-08T16:22:20+00:00

    I have similar problem.

    My mac is all english but OneNote keeps changing proofing language to my native language with every paragraph.

    I don't know where he gets that setting from.

    Can it be taken from Microsoft region setting?

    Hope they gonna fix that as this is super annoying.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-01T20:36:21+00:00

    That's what I get for switching from Evernote to OneNote :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-01T19:50:24+00:00

    I believe it's a known bug: the language is reset to English by default

    for every new paragraph. Really really annoying…

    Corentin

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-04-01T13:37:10+00:00

    Let's hope that there will be a solution soon.

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