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Summary: Learn about the language packs and language interface packs that are available for Office.
An installation of Office 2016 can include applications or user interface elements in more than one language because some Office 2016 products are not available in every language.
For Office 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013, see the official LIP download site: Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) downloads - Downloads However, if your Office is in any of the official 36 languages like English, German, Russian or Spanish, and you want to completely change it to another major language, you need a Language Pack, which in case of.
This article describes the language versions that are available for a subset of Office 2016 applications, the Office 2016 applications that will work with Language Interface Packs, and the recommended base languages to install for Office 2016 Language Interface Packs.
Important
This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for versions of Office 2016 that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology, which are available for enterprises through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you're deploying Office 365 ProPlus, which uses the Click-to-Run installation technology, see Overview of deploying languages in Office 365 ProPlus.
Applications and language availability
In some non-English language versions of Office 2016, a specific Office 2016 application may not be available. For example, Access 2016 is not available in Hindi. Therefore, the Hindi language version of Office 2016 is installed in English.
Some Office applications are not available in some languages. Project 2016 and Visio 2016 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table.
Language availability for the 2016 versions of Project and Visio
Language | Project 2016 | Visio 2016 |
---|---|---|
Arabic | yes | yes |
Brazilian | yes | yes |
Bulgarian | no | no |
Chinese - Simple | yes | yes |
Chinese - Traditional | yes | yes |
Croatian | no | no |
Czech | yes | yes |
Danish | yes | yes |
Dutch | yes | yes |
English | yes | yes |
Finnish | yes | yes |
French | yes | yes |
German | yes | yes |
Greek | yes | yes |
Hebrew | yes | yes |
Hindi | no | no |
Hungarian | yes | yes |
Italian | yes | yes |
Japanese | yes | yes |
Korean | yes | yes |
Norwegian (Bokm책l) | yes | yes |
Polish | yes | yes |
Portuguese (European) | yes | yes |
Romanian | no | no |
Russian | yes | yes |
Serbian (Latin) | no | no |
Slovak | yes | yes |
Slovenian | yes | yes |
Spanish | yes | yes |
Swedish | yes | yes |
Thai | no | no |
Turkish | yes | yes |
Ukrainian | yes | yes |
Language Interface Packs
For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some Office 2016 applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs (LIPs). These LIPs localize the user interface only, and not the Help content. Administrators must first install a fully localized base language version (see the table later in this section) of Office 2016, and then install the LIP. Users can then work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:
- Excel 2016
- OneNote 2016
- Outlook 2016
- PowerPoint 2016
- Shared Office features
- Word 2016
- Skype for Business 2016, but only for the following languages:
- Albanian: sq-SQ
- Azerbaijani (Latin): az-Latn-AZ
- Basque: eu-ES
- Belarusian: be-BE
- Catalan: ca-ES
- Farsi (Persian): fa-IR
- Filipino: fil-PH
- Galician: gl-ES
- Macedonian: mk-MK
- Serbian (Cyrillic): sr-Cyrl-RS
- Uzbek (Latin): uz-Latn-UZ
The remaining Office applications appear in the base Office 2016 installation language. The following table lists the base language for each LIP language.
Base languages available for Language Interface Packs
LIP language | Base language |
---|---|
Afrikaans | English |
Albanian | English |
Amharic | English |
Armenian | English |
Assamese | English |
Azerbaijani - Latin script | English |
Bangla (Bangladesh) | English |
Basque (Basque) | Spanish |
Belarusian | Russian |
Bengali - India | English or Hindi |
Bosnian - Latin script | English |
Catalan | Spanish |
Dari | English |
Filipino | English |
Galician | Spanish |
Georgian | English |
Gujarati | English |
Icelandic | English |
Irish - Gaelic | English |
Kannada | English |
Khmer | English |
Kiswahili | English |
Konkani | English |
Krygyz | Russian |
Luxembourgish | French |
Macedonian (FYROM) | English |
Malayalam | English |
Maltese | English |
Maori | English |
Marathi | English |
Mongolian - Cyrillic script | English |
Nepali | English |
Norwegian (Nynorsk) | Norwegian (Bokm책l) |
Odia | English |
Persian (Farsi) | English |
Punjabi (India) | English |
Quechua (Peru) | Spanish |
Scottish Gaelic | English |
Serbian - Cyrillic script | Serbian (Latin) |
Serbian - Cyrillic script (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | English |
Sindhi (Pakistan) | English |
Sinhala | English |
Tamil (India) | English |
Tatar | Russian |
Telugu | English |
Turkmen | Russian |
Urdu | English |
Uyghur | Chinese (Simplified) |
Uzbek - Latin script | English or Russian |
Valencian | Spanish |
Welsh | English |
For information about how to obtain the LIP you need for your deployment, see Download language packs, language interface packs, and proofing tools for volume license versions of Office.
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I have bought a laptop with Windows 8 installed. I installed Office 2007, but for some reason I can't get Word to check spelling in Hebrew, even though I've added it. In the language screen, English has a blue V but Hebrew does not.
How do I get Word 2007 to check spelling in Hebrew?
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Do you have a Hebrew MUI language pack for Office 2007? Did you purchase this separately? The thing is that MUI language packs are usually fully localized, and they cost like 25 USD, and they are purchased separately. I am not sure if these were available at the time that Office 2007 was released. If so, and you purchased one, you should be able to install it and use it.
These are no longer available for purchase online since July 2011. If you purchased yours before that then you are in luck. You will be able to use it normally.
If this is a LIP language pack (language interface pack) for Hebrew, then chances are that you will not be able to do spell-checking with it. Unlike MUI packs, the LIP packs are for free, and are usually available for minority languages for which there is no full localization, and they don't include a spell-checker. Only the MUI packs have the spell-checker.
Also, I am not sure if there were any MUI packs released for Hebrew for Office 2007. What I can tell you for sure is that a Hebrew MUI pack is available for Office 2010. If has a spell-checker and it costs 25 USD.
Scenario A: You have Hebrew MUI for Office 2007
There should be a spell-checker included. If you can't make it work the chances are there is something wrong with the installation or the configuration. You can provide us with more information to try to troubleshoot the problem.
Scenario B: You have Hebrew LIP for Office 2007
These packs don't include spell-checkers. So if this is the case then you should be able to translate the interface and dialog boxes of Office 2007 programs into Hebrew. But you will not be able to do spell-checking. So in this case, this is all normal.
The route you have to take to make this work if you really want that spell-checking ability is to upgrade to Office 2010, and then purchase the 25 USD Hebrew MUI pack for Office 2010. I am not absolutely sure that this pack includes the spell-checker. So I can't stress this enough that you verify this for yourself before you purchase. You should find more information about it on the product description page.
Update:
I think I fully understand the situation now. This user has added Hebrew as an 'editing language'. But no language pack or proofing tool kit (spell-checker) has been installed. No MUI, LIP, or PTK, nothing. The 'blue V' refers to the blue checkmark icon that appears when a proofing tool is available for a given language.
This is what it looks like in Office 2010.
Go to start menu, All programs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2010 Tools, Microsoft Office 2010 Language Preferences. A dialog box will open up.
Click the drop down menu list and select Hebrew. Then click the Add button.
If a proofing tool kit (PTK) for Hebrew is not installed it will say 'Not Installed' under the Proofing column.
To install it, you would normally click this link and it will take you to a Microsoft Office web page where you can either purchase and download the language tools for the selected language or you can get it for free. It depends on the language. Proofing tools seem to be free for Office 2013. Right now, if I click this link it takes me to the download page for Office 2013 because this is the most current Office suite.
As you can see from the image below you can see that Hebrew is not available for Office 2013 at the moment.
If I select Hausa (yes, it's a language spoken in Africa) I am given the option to download Language Interface Pack (LIP) for free, and the proofing tools are also free.
However, if I select Polski (Polish) I am given the option to buy a 'Language Pack'. So unlike the LIP packs, these 'Language Packs' (also known as MUI language packs) are not for free. And if you skim through the description text you will see that it says 'Proofing tools for Polish, English, and German'.
So if you decide to purchase one of these 'language packs' or 'MUI packs' you will not only get the ability to change the interface and dialog boxes of Office programs to that language (aka display language) you will also get the proofing tools for that language, all in one installable package.
This applies to Office 2010 and 2013. There should be another page I think where you can purchase Office 2010 language tools. Because this suite is still supported by Microsoft. The same thing (steps, language options, etc.) should apply to Office 2007 but since this is an old version of Office ti may be difficult or impossible to obtain the tools you need.
This is the message you will get if you select Hebrew as editing language in Word 2010 and then click the Spelling & Grammer button under the Review section.
As the message says you need to make sure you have the proofing tool installed for this language.
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The Hebrew proofing tools required for spell-check were included with the Hebrew version of Office 2007 and the Hebrew Language Pack (used to be available for purchase separately).
Alternately you could have purchased the Office 2007 Proofing Tools DVD (as indicated by the error message above), but again this seems to be no longer available on the Microsoft Store site at least. If you have an appropriate MSDN subscription you are in luck however because it is still available there for download:
Alternately you could have purchased the Office 2007 Proofing Tools DVD (as indicated by the error message above), but again this seems to be no longer available on the Microsoft Store site at least. If you have an appropriate MSDN subscription you are in luck however because it is still available there for download:
Additionally, if you install this you should also install SP3 for it.
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