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See also: View or change the properties for an Office file | Microsoft Support

Identify the Language

If you've authored your material in Word, you can use any save function to move a .doc(x) to a PDF and carry over many accessible properties of that file. Before you do this, make sure you've identified the Language the file is in. We use the Office 2019 Suite here at Swarthmore, and you can:

Overall

If you’d like to identify a particular language you most often write and edit in, follow these steps:

1. Open a Microsoft Office program.

2. Select File,

3. then scroll down to select Options.

4. In Word Options, choose Language.

5. In the Choose your Editing Language section,

6. Choose or Add your editing language.

7. In the Choose your Display Language section,

8. select the option to Match your operating system

9. OR choose another language to set as default.

10. Click OK.

Now the program will default to the language you selected.

Mac or Windows

1. select Review,

2. Scroll down and select Language.

3. Choose the Set proofing language

4. and make your appropriate selection.

5. Click OK.

See also: Add an editing or authoring language or set language preferences in Office | Microsoft Support

If you have specific sections of text in different languages, select that text and indicate the language using the steps above for just that selection.

Convert the more accessible file to PDF (if you must)

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