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Feb 8, 2015 6:13AM PST

Using MS Office Home & Student 2013-en-us, version 15.0.4675.1003, on a less than 1 year old HP desktop with Windows 7. Recently, when I opened Word, almost all of the template names appeared in Dutch (Netherlands) language. I have tried to change the language for the templates back to English but cannot.

Does anyone know how to correct this? Thank you.

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Before I wipe out Word and do over
Feb 8, 2015 6:21AM PST
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Thank you for the link
Feb 9, 2015 6:55AM PST

I'll try the methods outlined in the WordTips article and hope they solve the issue. Also, I'll post the results in this forum. Thanks, again.

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Did not correct template name issue
Feb 11, 2015 1:12AM PST

Went through the steps in the WordTips article. Had no effect on the template names appearing in Dutch.
I'll keep looking. Thank you for the suggestion.

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OK. Let's step back to File Explorer.
Feb 11, 2015 1:18AM PST
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OK. Let's step back to File Explorer
Feb 12, 2015 5:36AM PST

Bob,
Will be working with the 2 links in your last message soon, hopefully tonight.

Inasmuch as everything on the computer, other than the template names that only recently appeared in Dutch, is in my region's language, which is US English (I live in VA.), I have to assume that Windows is set to English. Nothing else in WORD appears in Dutch, just the template names.

I'll report back when I get through the info in the 2 links in your last message. Thank you, again.

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Progress in a different direction
Feb 14, 2015 3:32AM PST

Bob,

Accessed both of the links in your message from 2/11. Nothing in either changed the templates.

I also searched for solutions via GOOGLE, but found nothing useful. I opened each/every template and found that the sample text in them is also in Dutch. Turns out it was not just the template names. So, I checked the language setting for each/every opened template individually. They were all set to US English and there was no mention of Dutch as being set for any aspect/function (spelling. grammar, editing) for any of the templates.

By accident I discovered a way to turn off the WORD Start Screen so that the program opens to just a blank document/template and does not display the Dutch templates. I do not have any need for any of the templates, other than the blank document so this is a viable solution. Although this obviously does not correct the issue of how or why the templates suddenly appeared in Dutch, and I will continue to try and find out how to re-set them to US English, at least I'm not continually reminded of the problem every time I open WORD.

Thank you very much for your help. I'm going to consider this forum topic closed.

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Re: template
Feb 19, 2015 4:46PM PST

You can delete templates you don't need.
You can copy the English templates from any PC that happens to have them and put those it that folder.
You can make your own templates.

You'll probably never know how these Dutch language templates came there. Either they came with MS Office (when it was installed), or you or somebody else installed them later.

Kees

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Templates
Feb 21, 2015 1:17AM PST

Hi Kees,

Thanks for your reply above.

The templates, as downloaded, by me, from MS on a new purchase, originally appeared in English. As strange as it may seem, and I would not have believed it if I had not seen it myself, templates that appeared on the WORD Start Screen in English one day appeared in Dutch the next. The computer is in my home and I am the only one who uses/accesses it. (I live alone and had no visitors when this occurred.) I am baffled. Additional searching, since my message of 2/14, has not shed any light on how this happened or how to correct it. Since discovering how to bypass the Start Screen, I am not as concerned about it.

However, the 3 suggestions at the start of your message are certainly viable options.