MacBook Air :: Change System Default Language?
May 24, 2012
Just bought my first mac (macbook air 11") and i bought it second hand.The guy that sold it to me, had the language set to Chinese. I cant read Chinese so i asked him to change it to English, which he did.He also left a lot of his personal information on here, which is not wise, but i am a nice guy and attempted to do a system restore. The whole restore menues were in Chinese but i managed to guess my way through it and now it seems to be doing a restore. I know the language can be changed once in the OS, however how do i do this for the restore partition?
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Jan 29, 2010
I got a hand me down ibook from a relative but the default language is in German, I cant understand German. Is it possible to change the language display for commands , instructions and icons to English?
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Apr 29, 2012
I live in NL but my first language is English, sure I'm learning Dutch and use it where I can but at home I prefer not to work so hard at understanding everything. Is it possible to live in one place but pick a language you prefer?
If I moved to a country like China Japan or Russia I'd really be in trouble ...
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Oct 18, 2009
I've been trying to find a solution to this for ages, with no success. I'm not even sure it's possible, but I thought I'd continue to try. What I want to do is change the language setting in Pages permanently. I've had answers telling me about the language setting, and International Input menus and so on, but I'm familiar with changing the language setting, as I write a lot of documents in French and in German, but I write more in English, so what I want is to be able to permanently change the setting so that every time I open a new document, the language is set to British English.
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Nov 2, 2009
How do I change the default language for spelling in Pages? The Blank template has English as the default; I want to change this to British English.
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May 22, 2012
I am bilingual, and use two languages on my Mac - English as default, and Russian as secondary. After the update to 10.7.4. every time I log back in (have a password on my Mac Pro), all the programs have Russian language. For example, I open a Chrome window to start typing in the web address, and it writes in Russian language. I cannot remove Russian language, as I use it as much as English language. But I would like to have English as default like I am used to. I have checked in the Preferences, everything is as it used to be, primary English, and secondary Russian. But the problem persists even after the reboot, changes in the Preferences.
It is not hard to switch between the languages, it is just annoying to expect the machine run in English, and then see the other language, and switch.
P.S. Besides, the English language icon is became more dull after the update. Not that I complain, just want to know if it is normal or there IS the problem with languages on my Mac.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Sep 12, 2014
How do i change the system language of my mac. I had to change it into Chinese. Since the Chinese guy is gone, how to change it back into english. I don't understand any of the Chinese writing..
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Feb 12, 2012
How do I change the system preferences language?
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Apr 13, 2012
How to change the language of the system (detailed procedure).
Additionnal question: my mouse (wifi) works, but immediately after I have booted the system (a few seconds), the left clic does not work any more. What can I do?It is very difficult (impossible ?) to maintain the Imac without a mouse working correctly.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6)
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Nov 21, 2010
Under Language & Text there are 4 tabs:
Language
Text
Formats
Input Sources
I have added a language under the first tab, Language, only to find that there is no correspondingly supported input option under the fourth tab, Input Sources.
I would now like to remove the entry I added under the first tab, Langauge, but cannot figure out how to do this. I have tried highlighting and pressing delete, dragging it out of the window, etc., but so far nothing works.
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Mar 8, 2010
I was wodnerign why when i change the display language, it only changes partly?
I change the display language to Polish, Loggedout then back in here are the results:
But! There are still some left over spots in english... .
lso in the system preferences... nothing changes.
Whats going on? What am i doing wrong?
I'm new to OS X :P
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Oct 8, 2010
In Pages, you can change the default language to British English in the Inspector --> Text --> "More" tab --> Language: British English.
However, this reverts somehow in every launch of Pages. How do I set British English as the default language so that vocabulary checks are done according to British English?
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Oct 21, 2009
I'm using MAC os 10.6.1 and my MBP region is Russian(Ukraine) I want to set my default language in applications (to type - not menu language)as English. How to do it? For some reason all application start and change my Input Source to Russian every time.
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Mar 27, 2012
Im writing a spanish paper and I need all the accents on the paper. I know you can use the codes to add accents, but I was using a different Word program were I could change it to Spanish (Costa Rica)!
Info:MacBookPro
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Apr 14, 2012
How can i change the language on an aplle macbook pro?
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Apr 28, 2012
If I buy a macbook in canada, but want to be able to type in Japanese, is there a fee to change the keyboard /system?
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MacBook Pro
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Jul 3, 2012
its stuck on a language and cant change it to english.
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MacBook Pro
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Sep 29, 2009
how to set Word's default language to English UK ? I keep selecting Tools - Langauge - English UK- Default and confirming I want that as default.
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Mar 9, 2012
My MacBook Pro is in Chinese as the default language. And I've changed it into English. Then everything has changed except the log in window. The buttons are still in Chinese. And how can I change this window into English?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 4, 2014
I have macbook pro-How i can change my language keyboard with shortcuts?
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Jun 2, 2014
I was gifted a Mac Book pro, but the programs are all set up in Chinese. How can I change the language of the programs to English?
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But I do not know which control to select after choosing the office file folder as the menu is all in Chinese.
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MacBook Pro
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Feb 20, 2012
I changed my language from English to Vietnamese. My computer went on sleep. When I tried to log on, it didn't show up the dots(for the password field). I'm thinking the language change has messed up the keyboards!I really need to log on my computer as soon as possible.By the way, I changed the language to Vietnamese VNI.
Info:Mac Pro
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Aug 26, 2014
How do I change the my login page (password box) to be in the English language?
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Dec 10, 2014
I just want to know how to change the language on word? Not for a document but when I'm on the home screen because its on spanish. For example instead of layout its say Disenio ?
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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Jun 3, 2014
how do i change the language of my keyboard and autocorrect to write a text in spanish using the pages app?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 5, 2010
I am buying PowerBooks for students here in Brazil. They all have some level of OSX 10.4 but are in English. I need to change the base language to Portuguese. Is there a way to do this without the original install disks?
I may have one or two systems with OSX 10,5, so the same question applies there.
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Feb 8, 2009
The language on my Mac is English (US).
How do I change the language to use English (UK)?
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May 13, 2009
i'm using Mac OS X in English but i'm French and need the spell checker in French. Each time I have to change the language of the whole interface, log out and log in again.
I checked the Dictionnary preferences thinking it might be linked but I can't see any French options.
Do you have any idea how i can modify this setting so that the spell checker in Safari or Firefox or any programs switches to French?
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Nov 27, 2008
I gave my dad a Mac G4 and he needs to change the language on the system from English to Spanish. Does he need the original CDS for the G4 to reinstall and change language preferences because i currently have installed Panther on the computer10.3.9. .If so where can i get the orignal CDS for the G4
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Apr 25, 2008
About eight months ago I had to change the hard drive in my ibook. Because I did that change in Germany, some features are in German. Others are in spanish because I lived in Mexico. How do I change the language settings for the programs and operating system. (I hope I am explaining this correctly)?
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