Language Interface Packs (LIP) enable you to change the user interface (UI) language for Microsoft Office Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, as well as use a spell check dictionary and some proofing tools in the LIP language. Download a LIP from Language Interface Pack (LIP) downloads. If you're unsure if need a LIP or a Language Pack, see the Check which Language Packs are installed on your computer section in the Determine if you need a Language Pack page. If you don't see the language that you're looking for, it might be a Language Pack.
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When do I need a Language Interface Pack?
If you need to change the user interface (UI) language in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, or you need to use the proofing tools, such as the spelling and grammar checker, for an LIP language, you need to download a LIP. For a full list of available LIP languages, see Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) downloads. For information about how to change the 2007 Office release display language, see Set the display and editing languages.
Important You must install the LIP version that matches your version of Office. For example, if you are using Microsoft Office 2007, you must install the Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2007. The 2003 version of a Language Interface Pack will not work with the 2007 Office release programs.
For example, if you have the Spanish primary language version of Microsoft Office 2007 installed and you want to see the UI, and also be able to edit documents in Catalan, you can download and install the Catalan LIP, then change your UI to Catalan.
For a list of the primary language versions of Office, see The 2007 Microsoft Office suites localized versions. For a list of available Language Packs for Office 2007, see Office Language Pack 2007.
Get a Language Interface Pack (LIP) download.
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How is a Language Interface Pack different than a Language Pack?
Language Interface Packs provide a set of tools in a number of languages for four of the 2007 Office release programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It does not contain Help/User Assistance as part of the download package, but some help files can be downloaded separately for some languages from the download site. The LIPs can be downloaded for free from Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) downloads.
Language Packs contain localized user interface text for more 2007 Office release programs (Access, Excel, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Word), and more proofing tools than Language Interface Packs, such as grammar checkers. Language Packs can be purchased from Office Language Packs.
Below is a list of LIP languages and the features available in that language for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.
Note The LIP for Norwegian (Nynorsk) also includes OneNote 2007 as a translated application.
KEY:
X = Feature Included
| Language |
Spelling checker |
Help download available |
| Afrikaans |
X |
X |
| Albanian |
X |
X |
| Amharic |
|
|
| Armenian |
X |
X |
| Assamese |
X |
X |
Azeri
(Latin) |
X |
X |
| Basque |
X |
|
Bengali
(Bangladesh) |
X |
X |
Bengali
(India) |
X |
X |
Bosnian
(Cyrillic) |
X |
X |
Bosnian
(Latin) |
X |
X |
| Catalan |
X |
|
| Filipino |
|
X |
| Galician |
X |
|
| Georgian |
X |
|
| Gujarati |
X |
X |
Hausa
(Latin) |
X |
X |
| Icelandic |
X |
|
| Igbo |
X |
X |
| Indonesian |
X |
X |
| Inuktitut (Latin) |
|
|
| Irish |
X |
|
| isiXhosa |
X |
X |
| isiZulu |
X |
X |
| Kannada |
X |
X |
| Khmer |
|
X |
| Kiswahili |
X |
X |
| Konkani |
X |
X |
| Kyrgyz |
X |
X |
| Lao |
|
X |
| Luxembourgish |
X |
|
Macedonian
(FYROM) |
X |
|
Malay
(Brunei Darussalam) |
X |
X |
Malay
(Malaysia) |
X |
X |
| Malayalam |
X |
X |
| Maori |
X |
|
| Marathi |
X |
X |
| Nepali |
X |
X |
Norwegian
(Nynorsk) |
X |
|
| Oriya |
X |
X |
Persian
(Farsi) |
X |
X |
Punjabi
(Gurmukhi) |
X |
X |
| Quechua |
|
|
| Serbian Cyrillic |
X |
|
| Sesotho sa Leboa |
X |
X |
| Setswana |
X |
X |
| Sinhala |
X |
X |
| Tamil |
X |
X |
| Tatar |
X |
X |
| Telugu |
X |
X |
| Urdu |
X |
X |
Uzbek
(Latin) |
X |
X |
| Vietnamese |
X |
X |
| Welsh |
X |
|
| Yoruba |
X |
X |
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Where do I get a Language Interface Pack?
Language Interface Packs are available at the Language Interface Pack (LIP) download page.
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How do I install a Language Interface Pack?
See Download, install, configure or uninstall a Microsoft Office Language Interface Pack 2007 for information about where to download, how to install and configure, or uninstall the LIP software.
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