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
    2016-03-27T13:11:01+00:00

    This has been a known issue since 2014 and Microsoft still hasn't fixed the problem? I just purchased Office 365 and since it came with OneNote I was looking forward to using it, but within a few seconds I discovered the language issue, which is totally unacceptable. No other software behaves like this. I won't be using it, as there are plenty other excellent note-taking applications available that are not broken.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-14T22:46:32+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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-02T08:15:50+00:00

    I suggest everybody uses the feedback system in OneNote for this issue, and please encourage everybody you know to do this too!  There's a little smiley face in the top-right corner of OneNote's application window.  Perhaps include a link to this discussion, because I don't think anybody serious from the product team for OneNote is paying attention.  This is the link to copy and paste: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_onenote-onenote\_mac/onenote-osx-language-proofing/d380b644-5dbd-4d7d-9a4d-e59a19160384

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-02T08:07:05+00:00

    If I'm using the "Unicode Hex Input" then why do you use American English as the proofing language?  It should be British English on my system.  There's no such thing as "Unicode Hex" as a proofing language.  Please fix this and make your app follow the platform conventions, which are basically the same as on Windows (not that I've got a Windows system these days where I can check if OneNote is broken there too).

    I generally use the "ABC Extended" keyboard input.  Where does this say anything about American English?

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-02T07:10:44+00:00

    But this does not make any sense.... The assumption ist just wrong ...

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