Office 2004 Mac.

[APablo]

I have the been using my friends computer and his office (as well as
all softwares) is in German.

Is there a way I can change the language to english and when he
returns change back to German?

It's a MacBook.

Thanks

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I have the been using my friends computer and his office (as well as
all softwares) is in German.

Unfortunately, Office is not a packaged application offering the
localizations fro multiple languages. You can't change the language of
the user interface of the application :-\


For other software, it's fairly easy.
In your account, open the International Preferences and make sure that
the defaul language is English.
Log out and back in and that should take care of it,

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

CyberTaz <typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet> wrote:

Hello

Some other programs "may" support multiple languages but most do not.

Actually many many many do. And for the ones that won't, except for
Office of course, the default language is most of the time English,


Corentin

<http://www.cortig.net/localisations>

 

[Michel Bintener]

I believe you can change the Languge in System Preferences for OS X, but
only the OS is directly affected.

It affects more than just the OS, actually; any packaged application will
use the language specified in System Preferences, if it is available. For
instance, if I were to change the primary language in that list to French,
most applications on this Mac, ranging from built-in applications, such as
Mail and Safari, to third party applications, such as Nisus Writer Pro or
OmniOutliner, would be in French, too.


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

*** Please always reply to the newsgroup. ***

 

[CyberTaz]

I believe you can change the Languge in System Preferences for OS X, but
only the OS is directly affected. Keep in mind, though, that it only
translates menus, etc. There are also keyboard & other settings involved.

Some other programs "may" support multiple languages but most do not. MS
Office 2004 in particular is language-specific - if you want the English
version you have to purchase it... or German, or French, or whatever,
individually.

 

[CyberTaz]

Geez, guys, ya don't have to double-team me

The point I was trying [ineffectively] to make was that the only thing the
Sys Prefs actually change in "most" programs is the language used in menus &
dialogs as opposed to the functionality or other behavior of the software
itself.