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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96988

--- Comment #9 from Francisco <franciscoadriansanchez@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to teo8976 from comment #8)
Existing sheets with cells otherwise formatted with language settings
--must explicitly be reformatted.

Yes, that's expected behavior. If a cell has been already applied a format
with a language, it's expected that you have to explicitly reformat it to
change that.

I'm talking about "virgin" cells, cells that haven't yet been touched.

the "Locale setting" also has to be adjusted to have language 
attributes of new (or existing but not formatted from default) 
sheets of cells changed.

THAT'S THE ISSUE which I reported in bug 96990 (I'm not sure it was a good
idea to mark it as duplicate): you shouldn't have to. Let's say I have all
my default in English, and now I start a document in Spanish. I have to be
able to go to ONE place, set Spanish as the document language (and it should
be cristal clear that I'm setting a language for the DOCUMENT), and starting
from now, whenever I select one or more cell and go to "Format cells", the
language that appears on the right in your screenshot should by default be
Spanish (then you can change it to whatever you want for individual cells).
I shouldn't be supposed to change the document language AND the locale
settings. 


Also it is unclear whether the locale settings will then be remembered for
future documents or not.
See point (2) in my comment 2 to issue 96990


The overall current situation is that managing the language is a mess, the
UI and menus are ambiguous and it's difficult to figure out what you need to
change and what will affect what. You shouldn't have to read a whole manual
to figure out how to start out a new document where everything is by default
in language X.

I disagree, as a user I think it's OK as it is. Moreover, an approach of
setting the language of the entirety document in one place wouldn't allow one
to have paragraphs or words with different languages. Maybe it's not that
common, but there're situations where it's useful. 
Maybe, there should be a global option which changes the language of the
default style, but I'm not that sure.

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