Forum Discussion
Trying (and failing) to change language settings
Context: I'm using SharePoint in Microsoft 365 on Microsoft Edge.
Background: I was tasked with testing SharePoint's language settings for some bilingual coworkers, so I changed my own account from English to Italian (the only non-English language I'm familiar with). I then changed back from Italian to English, but several fields on several SharePoint sites are still displaying in Italian.
Caveats:
- When I access the language settings (myaccount.microsoft.com/settingsandprivacy/language) on my Microsoft account, all three of the language fields only list English.
- When I access the language settings (edge://settings/language) on my browser, the preferred language is English.
- My Windows display language is set to English.
- I have logged in and out of my account, restarted my computer, and cleared the browser cache and cookies multiple teams.
- I logged into my Microsoft account using Chrome, and the same SharePoint fields are still in Italian.
- I searched this forum and did some Google-searching, but didn't find any similar instances or instructions that I hadn't already tried.
Question:
Any ideas what else I can do to fully revert back the language settings to English? This is driving me crazy, and unfortunately the IT team hasn't been able to help.
aforsher SharePoint has a lot of different language settings, and lots for different caching mechanisms for UI elements that are not good at realizing that your language are changed. Some caching mechanisms are in the browser in local or session storage, some in IndexedDB, even some on the server and for lists and now libraries it's an actual tSQL table on your hard drive.
What exactly is not changing language? I can tell you where it's cached and which language parameter controls it.
For the multitude of language settings in SharePoint alone, I recorded a couple of video, this one for the most impactful language change in your SharePoint profile and this one for other SharePoint language parameters.
