I have installed Microsoft Pinyin IME (Chinese Input) into my notebook, but everytime when I open a new document using Microsoft Word 2002 the text input language will automatically change to Chinese. This is quite annoying as I have to manually change the text input language to English before start working on my document. Anyway for me to make the default text input language to English?

right clikc the "EN" or "CH" language bar, click settings, and choosr ur default input language there, see the screenshot,
or press shift + alt after ms word fully start up, keep press shift + alt till u get english input.

Yes, it's already defaulted to English ...

besides pressing shift + alt, is there another way to make it automatically start with english input ?

isit the font also changed to chinese?

im not very sure coz i dont have macrosoft word installed

if its true, then its probably related to regional and language options.
try change the locale to default English(US)

yes, the font also changed to chinese ...

can't find where is locale setting in my Regional and Language Options. I'm using XP btw ...

its inside control panel
and look for "regional and language options".

yeah, everything is defaulted to english except for the non-unicode language.

"Microsoft Office 2002 Language Settings"
Its is under the Start Menu > Microsoft office > Microsoft Office Tools

Microsoft Office installation cd is needed to open the program
gonna try that out when I got my Microsoft Office installation cd ...

thanks for helping out 1024kbps and tvcat