Language Options on the Status Bar in PowerPoint 2010
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2010
OS: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
Date Created: February 3rd 2012
Last Updated: February 3rd 2012
Excerpt/Capsule: This PowerPoint tutorial explains how to make the Language Option visible on the Status Bar in PowerPoint 2010.
Typically when you select any text container such as a text placeholder, shape, or text box -- then you may (or may not) see which language is specified for the text container on the Status Bar, as shown highlighted in red in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Language being displayed on the Status Bar
However it is quite possible that you may not be seeing any language specified on the Status Bar -- and this can happen for one of two reasons:
- You must have more than one Editing Language installed to see the Language option on the Status Bar. For more information on adding additional editing languages, please see our Add and Remove Proofing Dictionaries for Foreign Languages in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial.
- If you still do not see the Language option on the status bar, you may have turned that option off. To enable it again, you can right-click on an empty area of the Status Bar and make sure that the Language option is checked, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Language option to be selected
- Save your presentation often.
In the next tutorial of this series, we will explore how you can actually change the proofing language of a selected text container.
