The commands and controls don't appear if you don't have editing enabled for the language that the commands and controls apply to. You must enable editing for the language you want to work with.

The features might be hidden. To show them, on the Tools menu, click Options and go to the Regional tab. Click Show for Asian text, Kana find and replace, or Complex script text.

The toolbar buttons might be hidden. On the View menu, point to Toolbars and click Customize. Go to the Commands tab and, under Categories, select Format Text. Scroll down in the Commands list until you find the buttons you want on your toolbar and drag the buttons to the toolbar.

Editing might not be enabled for that language. If you see boxes instead of the correct characters in your document, presentation, worksheet, or form, either you don't have editing for that language enabled or you don't have a font that supports that language. You must enable editing for the language to display the characters.

Enabling editing for the language will also install the proper font for displaying the characters on your system.

You might have used a font that doesn't support that language. If there are still boxes in your Microsoft Office file after you have enabled editing for the language, try to format the text with a different font to make the characters appear correctly. Arial, Times New Roman, and a few other fonts have support for all European languages. Office comes with several fonts for Asian text: MS Mincho (Japanese), PMingLiu (Traditional Chinese), SimSun (Simplified Chinese), and Batang (Korean).

You might be using a third-party font that Microsoft Office doesn't support. Try using one of the fonts that comes with Office instead.

You might be using an operating system that doesn't support a language. For example, South Asian languages such as Thai, Vietnamese, and Hindi are supported only on the corresponding language versions of Microsoft Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows Millennium Edition, or on any language version of Microsoft Windows 2000 or later.

Changing the keyboard layout may also change shortcut keys. After you change your keyboard layout, the characters on your screen might no longer correspond to the characters printed on your keyboard. For example, you press different keys on the English (U.S.) and French keyboards to use the shortcut CTRL+Z for the Undo command. On a Greek keyboard, there is no "Z" character, so you must press the key that corresponds to a "Z" on the English (U.S.) keyboard to use the same shortcut.

Your system administrator might have chosen not to allow installation of particular languages, or you might need an updated version of Office 2003 MUI Pack— one that provides the global interface and translated Help in the language you want. For information about why a particular language isn't available or about how to obtain Office 2003 MUI Pack, see your system administrator.

Microsoft Office Visio doesn't support all the languages listed in the Microsoft Office Language Settings dialog box. If one of these languages is chosen, Visio will use a language that is available.

If you change the language of the user interface, the underlined letters for accessing menus, commands, and dialog box settings might also change. In rarer cases, the shortcut keys (for example, CTRL+G for Go To on the Edit menu, or CTRL+B to apply bold formatting) might also change. Look carefully at the menus and commands for the underlined letters and shortcut keys that indicate commands that change.

In cases where the shortcut key is not shown on a menu— for example, many of the CTRL key combinations for applying character formatting— install the language of Help that corresponds to the user interface language, and then search Help for a list of topics about keyboard shortcuts to find out what the shortcut keys are for that language.

To view the User Interface tab, you must use Office 2003 MUI Pack, which is available through volume licensing agreements. For more information, see your system administrator.

Some components of Microsoft Office don't support changing the language of the user interface or Help. For example, certain Microsoft Office Excel add-ins and Microsoft Office Access sample database programs are available only in the language of Office that you installed. Other components or Office programs aren't available in all languages. Finally, some languages of the user interface aren't supported by some language versions of Microsoft Windows. For example, Microsoft Office Outlook supports the Greek user interface only when running on a Greek version of Microsoft Windows. If Outlook is running on a non-Greek version of Windows and you select Greek as the Office user interface language, the user interface either changes to English or remains in the language of Office that you installed.