Language stupidities

I'm thoroughly frustrated with Word's handling of languages:

• Word replaces things like caption labels with the local term only if the User Interface is set to that language. What if I'm most fluent in English but I'm editing some documents in Spanish? I can manually add other caption labels, but nothing is automatic like it is when you change the UI language.
• In VBA there are symbolic names for most built-in styles, e.g. wdStyleNormal... But not for Table Grid (style # -155)
• Automating the Insert Cross Reference dialog it's already fraught with peril (most of the parameters are read-only, to set them needs SendKeys, which only works on Windows), automating it when the language may change is nearly impossible.