June 16, 2000

Participating in the global marketplace demands that organizations share, discuss, and produce information across language boundaries. Microsoft Office 2000 supplies international organizations cost-effective, user-friendly features to achieve this worldwide exchange.

The white paper Office 2000 Multilingual Deployment Guide details how these features – such as the MultiLanguage Pack plug-in language elements, Proofing Tools, and other language tools – help you deploy and customize Office 2000 to suit your organization's needs. The paper includes an appendix that outlines how to create transforms (MST files) that you can use to customize an Office 2000 installation for a multilingual environment.

Toolbox    The Office Resource Kit includes the white paper Office 2000 Multilingual Deployment Guide. See the Multilingual Deployment Guide for Office 2000 section in the Toolbox for the MLPKDply.doc download. You can find this downloadable file on the Office 2000 Resource Kit Downloads page.

The Office 2000 Multilingual Deployment Guide explains how Office 2000 can be customized for a variety of multilingual environments. For example, one organization needs Office 2000 support in a specific locale, another needs multiple languages available to different users at any computer in the world, and yet another needs its users to enter text, use a spelling checker, or read online Help in another language on occasion.

As language requirements vary, so do the network management resources for each organization. The white paper outlines how Office 2000 and the MultiLanguage Pack can be customized and deployed in one worldwide build or several regional builds – cost-effective ways to mimic localized versions of Office 2000.

Installation tools such as Windows Installer, the Custom Installation Wizard, and command-line options are explained, and methods such as chaining installations are detailed. Helpful deployment and installation checklists are included in an appendix.