Hebrew for Office - Virtual PC

[laurinda young]

Hi John
Yes it does help - thanks - but a few more questions. The person I
want to exchange files with is in England and not using a Hebrew
version of Office (I think 2000 ) but he has installed Hebrew proofing
tools which were bought seperately and enable him to work right to
left, use spell checks etc. What advantage would there be to buying
the Hebrew version and would not this create problems exchanging files
with someone using the 'English' version? I don't at present, need to
exchange files with anyone in Israel although I do need to be able to
send emails there. If I buy the Hebrew version of windows how will
that affect any other use I might make of VPC.
Thanks for any advice
Laurinda

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Laurinda:

Provided someone is using Office 2000 or above, there is no other "Version"
of Office. The same code runs everywhere (this may not be true for the
Chinese, Japanese and Korean version, but I think it is...).

The "language" features are all in external files. Basically, whenever you
switch languages, you tell Word to use a different set of help files, and a
different set of string files. The string files provide the names of all
the commands, menus and toolbars. So instead of having the various names
compiled into the program, they are (since office 2000) in external files
that sit in various numbered directories beside the main files. For
example, US English is 1033, British English is 2048, etc.

I tell you all that so I can tell you this: No, your friend does not need a
Hebrew version of Office to be totally 100 per cent compatible with you.
But she will need it if she wants to see the menu and toolbar names in
Hebrew. If she is happy to write Hebrew left-to-right using English menus
and commands, all she needs is to install the Hebrew proofing tools as she
has done.

I hope this helps

Hi John
Yes it does help - thanks - but a few more questions. The person I
want to exchange files with is in England and not using a Hebrew
version of Office (I think 2000 ) but he has installed Hebrew proofing
tools which were bought seperately and enable him to work right to
left, use spell checks etc. What advantage would there be to buying
the Hebrew version and would not this create problems exchanging files
with someone using the 'English' version? I don't at present, need to
exchange files with anyone in Israel although I do need to be able to
send emails there. If I buy the Hebrew version of windows how will
that affect any other use I might make of VPC.
Thanks for any advice
Laurinda

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