Using Internet Explorer: If you visit a web page that has used the lang= attribute properly, when you copy and paste its text into Word, the language setting is preserved. For example, when you copy and paste text from a French website into Word, Word will automatically tag the text as French and use its French dictionary and grammar checker when your dealing with this block of text.
When using any recent version of FireFox, copying and pasting text from international websites into Word results in the text being copied WITHOUT the language attribute being preserved. I'm wondering if this is a known limitation of FireFox (or Word 2003/2007) and if there's a workaround for this, eg. FireFox setting or plugin? I've been googling this topic without success using variations on the following terms: firefox html clipboard word (language|lang) What's odd is that I can't find anyone else with the same complaint. Perhaps I have a FireFox configuration option set wrong? I would appreciate hearing if any of you have had success copying text from FireFox into Word with preservation of language attribute or if you can confirm that this does not work at all. Thank you, Malcolm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

