Office Language Packs address the needs of multilingual individuals that routinely create or edit documents and presentations in different languages. They help organizations deploying office applications in environments where PCs are shared by speakers of different languages or to service customers in different countries. And they provide the flexibility of switching the entire user experience, including menus and help or only using proofing tools, such as spell checker, dictionary and thesaurus to any of 37 different languages.

• Create, edit, and proof documents in multiple languages

• Collaborate more productively with people from other countries

• Get up-to-date help in your language

• Access document templates from Office Online

• A comprehensive set of tools for the multilingual information worker

Create, edit, and proof documents in multiple languages

Office Language Pack document proofing tools enable users to proof documents created in 2007 Microsoft Office programs in more than 37 different languages.

Document proofing tools include:

• Spelling checkers
• Grammar and style checkers
• Thesauri
• Hyphenators
• Autocorrect lists
• AutoSummarize capabilities
• Translation dictionaries
• Input Method Editors (IMEs) for East Asian languages

Select a proofing language.

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Collaborate more productively with people from other countries

With Office Language Packs, customers can easily switch the user interface and dialog boxes of Microsoft Office programs between different languages.

Change the User Interface language for the following 2007 Microsoft Office system programs:

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office Groove 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Project 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

In addition, menus and help for 2007 Microsoft Office suite tools, such as Clip Organizer, Document Imaging, Document Scanning, and Picture Manager, are localized when language packs are enabled.

Find out which programs are enabled in your preferred language(s).

Change the language of the user interface.

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Get up-to-date help in your language

Office Language Packs enable users to read context-sensitive help in any of 37 languages, and to connect directly with localized Office Online Web sites to view help articles, demos, training, tips and tricks, and more that are continually updated.

Get help from Office Online in the language of the selected user interface. View a larger image.

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Access document templates from Office Online

Office Language Packs connect you to free Office Online templates in the language of your user interface. Office Online templates are easy to install, add pre-built designs and business logic to your applications and documents, and help you to save time.

Download a Dutch invoice template for Excel. View a larger image.

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A comprehensive set of tools for the multilingual information worker

Office Language Packs are available in each of the following languages:

A collection of all of the above Office Language Packs plus an English language pack are available as the Microsoft Office Multi-Language Pack 2007.

In addition to these core languages, document proofing tools are also included for additional companion languages. Find out which companion languages are included with your preferred language(s).

For more information about the specific tools available for each language, read the feature comparison.

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