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Does anyone know what the deal is with language packs and Office 2007? I
ordered and received from our campus computer store a CD labelled "English
Microsoft Office Multi-Language Pack 2007" End Item Part No. 79H-00100 but
this CD does not seem to have anything related to any non-English
languages on it. In past versions, there would be a set of about five
discs with various foreign language proofing tools. This is the only thing
the computer store had to offer me and I can't find anything useful on the
Office website. There are pages that reference "Language Packs" (see
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP101590421033.aspx) but nowhere
does it tell you what these are or where to get them.
This one disc was $39 so hopefully I'm not supposed to get a separate disc
for each of the ~21 languages we have proofing tools for currently (in
Office 2003).
Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
after some more research...
Well, I found an answer, if maybe not the answer:
If you have a PC with Office 2003 installed and your desired Office 2003
language packs installed, you can install Office 2007 on top of that and
it will successfully use the Office 2003 language packs. You can even
uninstall Office 2003 and leave the language packs and it still works.
You cannot, however, just install Office 2003 language packs on top of
Office 2007.
I don't know if this is what Microsoft intends for us to do or not but it
works.
Laura
and one more...
And now I've stumbled onto this page:
http://buy1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/buyus/product.aspx?family=langpack&culture=en
-US
You can't find it by searching for "language" or "language pack" but if
you search on "multi-language" you can get there.
I don't know what the licensing would be like though. Hopefully not $25
per language per workstation!
Does anyone know if these offer any improvements over the Office 2003
proofing tools?
Laura
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Duke University
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