A dedicated dialog for text language selection would reduce confusion. There are at least four closed bugs saying that Tools -> Languages -> For paragraph -> More... leads to the wrong dialog box. It leads to the character formatting dialog because text language is considered to be part of the character formatting. Counter-intuitive. Tools -> Languages -> For all Text -> More... leads to the general program options and there lets you set the language just for the current doc. Again counter-intuitive, but less confusing. This new dialog should just let you choose the language you want to use for the text, maybe also let you choose whether to apply it to the whole doc, the current paragraph, the selection, or maybe even make it the default for all docs.
Just keep in mind that this dialog will be setting three languages simultaneously, and dialogs with 4 (!) possible states (for scope in this case) are inacceptable from usability standpoint.
Thanks fore reporting! Because this is a valid enhancement request I'll just mark this as 'valid'. I'm not THAT familiar to discuss what do delete/change/.. and what not. Therefore I just mark it as NEW.
@Andras: I think it's good to have an expert opinion for this one. Thanks in advance, Joren
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