
to check your documents for spelling errors, grammar irregularities and maybe suggest alternative words. This is where Office uses a plug-in dictionary etc. There is spelling/grammar and sometimes thesaurus language support. Language support in Office comes in two different types and it’s important to be clear which one you mean. Don’t accept general statements (from us or Microsoft) as necessarily applying across all languages or local versions of Office.įirst, a quick overview. We’ve done our best here to sort out the mess.Ĭheck carefully what is and is not available for a specific language. To make matters worse, there are places where the Microsoft documentation is inconsistent or contradictory. That’s because it is the only version of Office legally sold now and the only Office 2010 has language packs you can buy.

Most of these articles only applies to Office 2010. Some of this is because the situation has changed a lot over the years so advice for past versions of Office doesn’t apply now. There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding, even inside Microsoft, about how languages are supported in Office. How can you get more languages for Office – or maybe you already have them?įollowing our look at Which languages come with Office in the last issue we received quite a few questions from Office Watch readers about language support in Office this and related articles will attempt to answer them and, hopefully, save our readers some money.
