Mar 10, 2010 The availability of the different proofing tools varies based on the localized version of Office you are running or the Language Pack(s) you have installed. You can find this information for Office 2007 here. This may be different for Office 2010. Office 2010 language packs also enable the document proofing tools to be localized in the user language. The proofing tools include the following: Spelling checker.
Check spelling and grammar in foreign languages with Microsoft Office Proofing Tools. For Office XP and Office 2003, Microsoft expanded the number of languages and the depth of features available. Languages supported include Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician. Microsoft Office Proofing Tools Kit is a add-on pack for Microsoft Office which contains different additions to Microsoft Officelike fonts, spelling and grammer checkers, additional Autocorrect lists, Autosummarize rules, translation dictionaries, keyboard layouts and support for Asian languages etc.
I may have misunderstood the literature regarding the language packs or language proofing tools. 1st of all I am not sure if they are the different names for the same thing or not. Are they? 2nd I do not in ay way want to change my UI with a different language. All I want to be able to do is -1- let Office not give me those squiggly red lines when I write in a different language -2- be able to spell-check and grammar check in the other language. And since I often use more than one language at the same time (2 to 3) be able to use all of the languages for spell-check etc. at the same time. So what exactly am I looking for?
What I have legally downloaded are 3 files that have such a series of numbers/letters: X16-37717.exe, X16-37707.exe， X16-37690.exe. Are these the right kind of stuff I am looking for?
Thanks
1 Answer
They are different things.
First of all, Microsoft distinguishes between
- editing language (whatever content you're typing)
- interface language or display language (the user interface elements on the screen; things like 'File', 'Start', 'View' etc)
- help language (the text in the Help screen)
- tooltip language (in the little popup rectangles when you hover over a control)
Now I have no idea why they split it up into so many items, and give the user the ability to set each of those independently; you have to ask them. But yes, you can write German documents on Word with an Italian user interface, French tooltips and Swedish help screens if you wish.
Anyway, for the editing language, you have the proofing tools, which include spell check, grammar check etc. These tools aren't available separately, but some versions of MS-Office include more than one language. See Localized versions of Office.
For different interface languages, you can download LIPs (Language Interface Packs) for free. However, those LIPs are only available for a handful of languages, none of them very widespread. For instance, English, Chinese or Spanish are not among them, to name a few. Here is the list.
Then there's the help language texts, which are also not available separately AFAIK.
And finally, the tooltip texts, which are. You can download those for free here.
Then the language packs; those are complete packages of language features (containing editing, display, help and tooltip texts) which are not available for download, but which can be purchased online.
Or rather, they used to be; all the links for those language packs redirect to the Office 2013 purchase page these days. Which is a shame, since this looked like it was what you wanted. Sorry.
And I'm not sure which files you downloaded. The files downloaded from Microsoft have much more descriptive names, such as ScreenTipLanguage_en-US_32Bit.exe or languageinterfacepack-x64-af-za.exe.
That's what I know. I do realise your question is almost a year old, but I hope it helps future visitors!
Edit:
A collegue of mine told me about the Digital River storage site, where you can download those language packs, with the same filenames as you mentioned even. I wasn't aware of that; Microsoft's site never mentions this, as they are no longer interested in supporting Office 2010, apparently. Oh well.
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I may have misunderstood the literature regarding the language packs or language proofing tools. 1st of all I am not sure if they are the different names for the same thing or not. Are they? 2nd I do not in ay way want to change my UI with a different language. All I want to be able to do is -1- let Office not give me those squiggly red lines when I write in a different language -2- be able to spell-check and grammar check in the other language. And since I often use more than one language at the same time (2 to 3) be able to use all of the languages for spell-check etc. at the same time. So what exactly am I looking for?
Proofing Tools Office 2010 Arabic Language Free Download
What I have legally downloaded are 3 files that have such a series of numbers/letters: X16-37717.exe, X16-37707.exe， X16-37690.exe. Are these the right kind of stuff I am looking for?
Thanks
1 Answer
They are different things.
First of all, Microsoft distinguishes between
- editing language (whatever content you're typing)
- interface language or display language (the user interface elements on the screen; things like 'File', 'Start', 'View' etc)
- help language (the text in the Help screen)
- tooltip language (in the little popup rectangles when you hover over a control)
Now I have no idea why they split it up into so many items, and give the user the ability to set each of those independently; you have to ask them. But yes, you can write German documents on Word with an Italian user interface, French tooltips and Swedish help screens if you wish.
Anyway, for the editing language, you have the proofing tools, which include spell check, grammar check etc. These tools aren't available separately, but some versions of MS-Office include more than one language. See Localized versions of Office.
For different interface languages, you can download LIPs (Language Interface Packs) for free. However, those LIPs are only available for a handful of languages, none of them very widespread. For instance, English, Chinese or Spanish are not among them, to name a few. Here is the list.
Then there's the help language texts, which are also not available separately AFAIK.
And finally, the tooltip texts, which are. You can download those for free here.
Then the language packs; those are complete packages of language features (containing editing, display, help and tooltip texts) which are not available for download, but which can be purchased online.
Or rather, they used to be; all the links for those language packs redirect to the Office 2013 purchase page these days. Which is a shame, since this looked like it was what you wanted. Sorry.
And I'm not sure which files you downloaded. The files downloaded from Microsoft have much more descriptive names, such as ScreenTipLanguage_en-US_32Bit.exe or languageinterfacepack-x64-af-za.exe.
That's what I know. I do realise your question is almost a year old, but I hope it helps future visitors!
Edit:
A collegue of mine told me about the Digital River storage site, where you can download those language packs, with the same filenames as you mentioned even. I wasn't aware of that; Microsoft's site never mentions this, as they are no longer interested in supporting Office 2010, apparently. Oh well.