Office 2004 language

[gochippy]

I use Office 2004 in OS X 10.4.8. The setup (environment) is English
but I want to switch to my native language, Japanese. Is this
conversion possible? Do I need to get Office 2004 Japanese version? (I
am not aware if such version is available, since I bought this package
in US and I live in US). I can enter text in Japanese but all other
information; menu, help, etc is English. If someone knows about
language conversion, please kindly advise.

Thank you,

 

[Michel Bintener]

There's a tool that comes with Microsoft Office 2004 called Microsoft
Language Register, and its location on your hard drive depends on the method
you used to install Office. If you did not do a custom install, it should be
in the Additional Tools folder inside Applications>Microsoft Office 2004; if
you did a custom install, and if you chose not to install the Microsoft
Language Register tool, you should find it on your install disc. Using that
tool, you can enable Japanese language features in Office; however, I'm not
sure if that will also switch Office's menus to Japanese. Maybe someone else
who has actually used this tool will be able to tell you more about it.

I use Office 2004 in OS X 10.4.8. The setup (environment) is English
but I want to switch to my native language, Japanese. Is this
conversion possible? Do I need to get Office 2004 Japanese version? (I
am not aware if such version is available, since I bought this package
in US and I live in US). I can enter text in Japanese but all other
information; menu, help, etc is English. If someone knows about
language conversion, please kindly advise.

Thank you,

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Charles Leung]

Is there any conversion for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)?

Thank you.

 

[Chickitty]

When I installed, I followed 'recommended' installation. There was,
however, a language pull down menu before the installation and I
remember I changed it to Japanese but nothing was changed (continued
English). I will check more details again as you described. I will
let you know the update. Do I need to re-install from scratch?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi,

Is there any conversion for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)?

As far as I remember, Japanese is the only language that is offered.
Additionally, you can only transform the US version in Japanese like
that. The same option is not available in other localizations of Office
(eg: French to Japanese is not possible).


Corentin

 

[Chickitty]

I did find the language register tool. Per instruction, I dragged
word, excel, and entourage on the register tool icon, then selected
Japanese. After that, I opened respective applications but nothing was
changed. I even restarted the computer but nothing changed. I am now
confused...
Any suggestions?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

The help files with Office say that the office applications obtain the
language setting from MacOS. Try using the language setting from the System
Preferences (with all Office applications closed - maybe even do a restart),
and then see what happens.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

I use Office 2004 in OS X 10.4.8. The setup (environment) is English
but I want to switch to my native language, Japanese. Is this
conversion possible? Do I need to get Office 2004 Japanese version? (I
am not aware if such version is available, since I bought this package
in US and I live in US). I can enter text in Japanese but all other
information; menu, help, etc is English. If someone knows about
language conversion, please kindly advise.

Thank you,

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Chickitty]

Hello,

Actually, I did change the System Preference settings to Japanese.
Currently, everything is shown in Japanese (Finder, all other menus and
applications that support Japanese). I restarted and opened excel,
word... Nothing changed. I do not know what else I should do.