How to make Russian in Word. Select an additional editing language and set language preferences in Office

How to change the language in Word? In this article, we will look at how to change the language in Word (Word) in two ways. The instructions apply to Office 2010 and later. It should be noted that when working in Word, you can use several languages. In addition, you can assign different languages for the interface, help and editing.

First way.

Go to the "Set Office Language Options" tab, which is located in "File - Options - Language". At the top of the window are settings for the editing language, then, from left to right, the language of the interface and help, and at the very bottom - tooltips.

The desired language may not be available and will have to be added. In the same window, you need to click on the "Add additional editing languages" drop-down list, select the desired language and click on the "Add" button to the right of the list.

In the table of editing languages, opposite the new language in the "Keyboard layout" column, the value "Not included" can be, click on it.

The "Change language settings" window will open. We are interested in the "Add language" button.

In the list of available languages that opens, select the required one and click "Add".

The added language is now set to Enabled in the Keyboard Layout column. Select the desired language and click on the "Default" button.

We do the same to change the default language for other components (interface, help, tips).

The second way.

This method is suitable if you subscribe to Office 365, including the student, home or personal packages, as well as the Office 2016 suite. But only if you have not installed Office yet, since adding a new language requires a complete reinstallation of the Office package. The installed office, before using this method, must be removed from the system through "Programs and Features".

1. Sign in to your Office account at office.com/myaccount .

2. Go to the "My Account" page and click on the "Install" button. (Skip this step and continue from step 3 if you purchased the Office suite).

4. Select the desired language from the list that opens, which you want to install.

5. After selecting the language, click on the "Install" button and follow the instructions.

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By configuring the Office Language Preferences, you can add a new language or choose the language in which Help and ToolTips are displayed.

The language options are in a dialog box that can be opened by selecting File> Options> Language. The interface and help languages can be set independently of each other. For example, you can set the same language everywhere as in the operating system, or use different languages for the operating system, editing, interface, and help.

The available languages depend on the language version of the Office suite and the optional language pack, user interface pack, and tooltip languages installed on the computer.

Adding a language

To add a language to Office programs, you must add an editing language. The editing language includes the keyboard layout and spell checker for that language. Spell checkers include language features, such as dictionaries to check spelling or buttons to set the direction of text in a paragraph. (The default editing language is shown at the top of the list in bold. You can change it if needed by selecting the desired language and clicking Default.)

Select File, Options, and then - Language.

In the dialog box Set Office Language Preferences on the menu Choice of editing languages select the desired language from the list Add additional editing languages and press the button Add.

The added language will appear in the list of editing languages.

If in a column Keyboard layout indicated Not included, do the following:

In the dialog box Adding languages press the button Add language, select the desired language from the list, and click Add.

Close the dialog Adding languages. In column Keyboard layout In chapter Choice of editing languages the language must have a value Enabled.

If in a column Spelling indicated Not installed, you may need to obtain a language pack or user interface pack in order to install the spell checker tools for your language.

Setting the default display language and help

Interface and Help languages are used by Office to display interface elements, such as menu items, commands, and tabs, in addition to the language in which the Help file is displayed.

The default language is listed at the top of the list and is in bold. Office uses the display and help languages in the order in which they appear in the display and help language lists. For example, if the list of interface languages contains Spanish<по умолчанию>, German, and Japanese, and the Spanish language tools have been removed from the computer, the default interface language will be German.

Setting the default language

Open an Office application such as Word.

Select File, Options, and then - Language.

In the dialog box Set Office Language Preferences in the section, select the desired language and click the button Default.

Determine the display language that is used in each Office application

If you use multiple languages, and Office is customized to your needs, you can poll all Office applications to find out which language is used as the default display language in each.

In the dialog box Set Office language preferences In chapter Selecting interface and help languages click View the display languages installed for each Microsoft Office program.

Setting the tooltip language

Note: This feature is only available for the following Office applications: Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, and Word. It is not supported for Office 2016 programs.

Tooltips are small pop-up windows that provide brief, context-sensitive help when you move the pointer over a display element, such as a button, tab, dialog box control, or menu. When you set the tooltip language in one Office program, the selected language is saved across all installed Office programs.

Open an Office application such as Word.

Select File, Options, and then - Language.

In the dialog box Set Office Language Preferences In chapter Choosing a language for tooltips select the language of the tooltips.

Notes:

This feature is not available in Office 2016.

If your language is not listed, you may need to add additional language services. Click the link How can I get additional tooltip languages from office.com? and follow the instructions to download and install.

The first time you run a Microsoft® Office 2003 application, its language settings default to the locale of the Office suite and operating system.

The default values for these settings can be predefined by the administrator. If custom language settings are set when Office is installed (for example, in a transform file), they are not overridden by the default settings when an application starts.

There are four main language settings that affect how Office works:

Installation language

The default language for Office applications and documents.

User interface language

The language used when displaying menus and dialog boxes.

Help topic language

The language used in the content of the help system topics.

Languages available for editing documents.

The functionality required to edit documents in different languages.

Note. If the language that you plan to use by default in Office is different from the operating system locale, you must specify the correct language in the conversion file when you install Office. If you change the Office language after installation is complete, any additional changes (such as macros added to the Normal.dot template in Word) will be lost.

Language settings in the Windows registry

The first time you run any installed Office application, the following key is created in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\LanguageResources

This section creates a parameter InstallLanguage with a value corresponding to the Office installation language ID (LCID), which in turn is based on the locale of the operating system. Parameter InstallLanguage and other settings contained in the LanguageResources section define the default language settings for all Office 2003 applications.

For example:

Microsoft Word finds records that contain language codes (LCIDs) and includes auto-detect features for all languages available for editing documents.

InstallLanguage A that specifies the language to use in the Normal.dot source file. Outlook checks against this same setting to set the default spelling checker.

Word checks parameter value UILanguage A that determines the display language of the user interface.

Ways to change language settings

You can change the language settings on users' computers in one of the following ways:

Use the Custom Installation Wizard to specify the default settings in a transform (.mst) file that will be applied to the Office installation package (.msi file).

Using the Microsoft Office Language Settings program, specify all the desired settings on the test computer, and then transfer them to the OPS file using the Profile Wizard. This file can then be added to a transform file or opened in the Profile Wizard on users' computers after Office installation is complete.

Use the Group Policy snap-in to apply policies that control language settings on users' computers.

Specifying Settings in an MST File

Most language settings can be changed on the page Change Office User Settings the Custom Installation Wizard. These settings will be applied during installation before any Office application is launched.

To change language settings in an MST file

Run the Custom Installation Wizard.

On the page Change Office User Settings expand tree node Microsoft Office (user).

In chapter Language Settings change the desired settings.

For example, to change the installation language, select Enabled Languages, double-click the item, and select the desired language from the list.

Note. Only a limited number of MUI package options can be defined in an MST file, including: installation path, component installation options, additional servers to install, and installer properties. You cannot change the language settings of an MUI package in an .mst file.

For more information about creating a transform file, see Office Customization Methods. For more information about the Custom Installation Wizard, see the Custom Installation Wizard article.

Saving Settings in an OPS File

The Profile Wizard is used to save settings in an OPS file that users can change. When you add an .ops file to a transform file, the settings saved in the .ops file are applied during Office installation. The Profile Wizard can also be run separately to apply the settings after Office is installed on users' computers.

Before creating the OPS file, you must install Office 2003 with the Multilingual User Interface Packs on a test computer. Then you should start each Office application and make any necessary settings. Most language settings can be changed using the Microsoft Office Language Preferences program included with Office 2003.

To change language settings on a test computer

Open the menu Start, select menu item All Programs, then Microsoft office and Microsoft Office Tools.

Select an item Microsoft Office Language Settings.

On the tab, click Add and select the languages you need to edit documents.

Drop Default version of Microsoft Office select the language for installing Office.

This parameter is optional. However, if the installation language of Office is English, French, German, Norwegian, or Serbian, choosing a language flavor can improve the performance of features such as spell checkers.

Click the tab.

Note that the tab User Interface only available if the Multilingual User Interface Pack is installed.

Drop Display menus and dialogs in select the display language for the user interface.

Drop Display Help language select the language for displaying the online help pages.

If no language is selected for the help system, the language specified for displaying the user interface will be used by default.

After completing the language settings, run the Profile Wizard and save the configuration you created as an OPS file.

To save language settings in an OPS file

Start the Profile Wizard.

On the page Save or Restore Settings select item Save the settings from this machine and enter a name and location for the .ops file.

Check the boxes next to the Office 2003 applications whose settings you want to include in the OPS file.

Don't forget to check the box for Microsoft Office Shared Settings.

Click the button Finish.

The Profile Wizard saves Office application settings to the specified .ops file.

For more information about the Profile Wizard and adding an .ops file to a transform file, see the article Customizing Settings Users Can Change .

Changing Language Settings Without Installing Multilingual User Interface Packs

In the Microsoft Office Language Settings program, on the User Interface only languages installed with multilingual user interface (MUI) packages are displayed. However, on the tab Available languages All languages that can be used for editing are available for selection, regardless of whether any MUI packages are installed.

This provides support for some languages for which no MUI packs have been installed yet. For example, if you select Korean to edit your documents, Word will have Asian language capabilities, even though the Korean spelling checker from the MUI package might not be installed. If you install the proofing tools from the MUI package or from the Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools, they will be used in Office applications.

You must keep in mind that before you enable the ability to edit in any language, you must ensure that the language is supported by the operating system. This can be done in the control panel section Language and Regional Standards (Regional and Language Options)(in Windows XP) or Language and Standards (Regional Options)(in Windows 2000).

Using policies to manage language settings

Policies can enforce initial language settings for groups of users or computers. Unlike default settings set in .ops or .mst files, policy-enforced settings cannot be changed by users.

After loading the Office Administrative Templates (.adm files) into the Group Policy snap-in, the policies that affect language settings can be found in the Group Policy snap-in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2003\Language Settings.

Office 2003 language settings are determined by the following policies:

Politics Display menus and dialog boxes in

Available in a group user interface. Specifies the language of the user interface.

Politics Display help in

Available in a group user interface. Specifies the language in which help web pages are displayed.

Politics Installed version of Microsoft Office

Available in a group Enabled Languages. Affects the installation language. By default, Office uses the language of the operating system.

Politicians Show controls and enable editing for

Available in a group Enabled Languages. Define languages for editing from the list supported by Office.

Politics Do not adjust defaults to user's locale

Available in a group Other. If the policy is set to Never run language tune-up, Office will not change language settings based on system properties. In order for the application to launch its configuration at startup (for example, to test new input method editors (IME) and national alphabets), the policy value must be changed to Only run language tune-up for new scripts.

For more information about using the Group Policy snap-in, see Managing Office 2003 User Configurations with Group Policies.

Configure Office language settings related to system localization

Based on the specified installation language, Office modifies related settings related to the regional configuration of the operating system (for example, the number format). This behavior is determined by the value of the registry setting LangTuneUp located in the section language resources. If you don't want the user's language settings to affect the default language settings, you can reset the setting LangTuneUp when installing Office.

Parameter LangTuneUp can take two values:

OfficeCompleted(default)

Custom locale-specific settings don't apply to Office as a whole; however, individual applications continue to check for new input method editors (IMEs) and national scripts, and use custom locale settings. For example, applications check for available languages for editing when a new keyboard layout is installed, and Word populates the Normal.dot file with fonts based on the user's locale.

Prohibited

Settings related to user locales are not configured either by Office as a whole or by its individual applications.

If the parameter LangTuneUp does not exist, Office creates it the first time you run any application and assigns it a value OfficeCompleted.

In some cases, ignoring custom locales allows you to keep the default configuration in international organizations. Parameter assignment LangTuneUp values Prohibited ensures the immutability of the language settings and b about Greater compatibility of macros with different language configurations.

For example, if your organization is located in the United States and you want to create a single configuration for different localizations, you can deploy Office with the parameter value InstallLanguage equal 1033 (English (United States)) and the parameter LangTuneUp assign a value Prohibited. In this case, all users will receive the same set of initial settings, regardless of locale.

However, ignoring user locales is not always the best choice. If the language of the Office 2003 installation differs from the language of the installed version, then the value Prohibited parameter LangTuneUp users won't be able to keep their preferences when upgrading a localized version of Office.

In addition, when working with documents containing Asian characters, the necessary fonts may not always be available. If the language of the Office installation on the user's computer does not match the language used in the document, and the setting LangTuneUp has the meaning Prohibited, fonts for the language of this document will not be displayed. In cases where Office needs to support multiple Asian locales, you should make sure that the LangTuneUp has the meaning OfficeCompleted. You can set a policy to prevent users from changing this value.

Note. Administrators can disable support for the Taiwan data format in Office 2003 by changing the setting Disable Taiwan Calendar. In the Custom Installation Wizard and Custom Maintenance Wizard, this setting can be changed on the page Change Office User Settings. In the group policy snap-in Disallow Taiwanese Calendar available in section User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2003\Language Settings\Other.

Related Resources

Most language settings are specified when Office 2003 is deployed, whether MUI Packs are bundled with the main Office installation or planned to be added later. Language settings can be changed after Office installation is complete by configuring policies (in the Group Policy snap-in) or propagating new values using the Custom Maintenance Wizard. For more information about changing language settings after you finish installing Office, see Update language settings in Office.

Each Office application uses custom language settings differently, making changes to the interface as well as other language-specific areas. For more information see article

When users ask how to change the language in Word, 99.9% of the time it's not about changing the keyboard layout. The latter, as you know, in the entire system is carried out with one combination - by pressing the ALT + SHIFT or CTRL + SHIFT keys, depending on what you have selected in the language settings. And, if everything is simple and clear with switching layouts, then with changing the interface language everything is a little more complicated. Especially if in Word you have an interface in a language that you do not quite understand.

In this article, we will look at how to change the interface language from English to Russian. In the same case, if you need to perform the opposite action, it will be even easier. In any case, the main thing is to remember the position of the items that need to be selected (this is if you do not know the language at all). So let's get started.

Changing the interface language in the program settings

1. Open Word and go to the menu File("File").

2. Go to the section Options("Options").

3. In the settings window, select the item "Language"("Language").

4. Scroll through the options window to "Display Language"("Interface language").

5. Select Russian("Russian") or any other that you want to use in the program as an interface language. Click the button Set As Default("Default") below the selection box.

6. Click "OK" to close the window "Options", restart applications from the package "Microsoft Office".

Note: The interface language will be changed to the one you choose for all programs included in the Microsoft Office package.

Changing the interface language for single language versions of MS Office

Some versions of Microsoft Office are monolingual, that is, they support only one interface language and you cannot change it in the settings. In this case, you should download the necessary language pack from the Microsoft website and install it on your computer.

Download language pack

2. In the table below the language selection window, select the version to download (32 bit or 64 bit):

Download (x86);
Download (x64).

3. Wait for the language pack to download to your computer, install it (just run the installation file for this).

Note: The installation of the language pack takes place automatically and takes some time, so you will have to wait a bit.

After the language pack is installed on your computer, launch Word and change the interface language, following the instructions described in the previous section of this article.

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First way. Go to the "Set Office Language Options" tab, which is located in "File - Options - Language". At the top of the window are settings for the editing language, then, from left to right, the language of the interface and help, and at the very bottom - tooltips.

In the table of editing languages, opposite the new language in the "Keyboard layout" column, the value "Not included" can be, click on it.

The "Change language settings" window will open. We are interested in the "Add language" button.

In the list of available languages that opens, select the required one and click "Add".

The added language is now set to Enabled in the Keyboard Layout column. Select the desired language and click on the "Default" button.

We do the same to change the default language for other components (interface, help, tips).

The second way. This method is suitable if you subscribe to Office 365, including the student, home or personal packages, as well as the Office 2016 suite. But only if you have not installed Office yet, since adding a new language requires a complete reinstallation of the Office package. The installed office, before using this method, must be removed from the system through "Programs and Features".

1. Sign in to your Office account at office.com/myaccount.

2. Go to the "My Account" page and click on the "Install" button. (Skip this step and continue from step 3 if you purchased the Office suite).

4. Select the desired language from the list that opens, which you want to install.

5. After selecting the language, click on the "Install" button and follow the instructions.

How to change the language in Word; change the language in the Word interface?

If you mean changing the interface language, then this can only be done if you have a set of languages in the package when insolating or changing the program (unless, of course, the package includes a set of languages).

You can view the available languages in the menu File-Language

If you mean how to change the language layout in word, then this can also be seen on the screen.

I also join Wale's answer, you can download the language library and replace them manually in the directory where the program is installed.

Starting from the 2007 version of Microsoft Word, this is done like this (for the Russian-language interface, an example):

the quot button is pressed; Office (upper left corner);
the item Word Optionsquot ; is selected at the bottom;
in the section at the bottom there is an item Language settingsquot ;;
in this window, the parameter Language of menus and dialog boxesquot ;.

If there are no languages in the list except the current one, this version has only one localization

The interface language of MS office, including Word, as far as I know, cannot be changed from the menu or something similar. In order for the word to be Russified, you need to find a distribution kit with support for the Russian language and, when installing, accordingly, select Russianquot ;. It seems to me that there are no other simple options (and reinstalling Word in this case is an easy option). A difficult option is to find the file / files where all the elements of the interface are recorded and replace them there hand-to-hand with similar Russian names

Although many still use this most used office software package in the world in the 2007 version, you should not forget that it is already the year 2017, and it is worth using more modern software in order to keep up with the times. I will write about him.

In Office versions 2010, 2013 and 2016, in order to change the interface language, we use the Office language settings settingsquot ; dialog. Everything is quite simple in it, as you can see (see the bottom half of the dialog box):

In order to change the interface language in the Word program, you will have to act differently in different versions of this MS office element. But if you tell in general terms in which direction to move, you get this:

Find Optionsquot ; in the menu. They can be located, for example, under the button Office in the upper left corner of the monitor.
In these parameters, select the item Basicquot ;. If not, go through all the options.
Look now for buttons Language or Language Options and click on the found button.
Most likely, a certain table with a list of available languages will appear on the screen. There may be two separate lists - editing language and interface language. Select the ones you need and click OKquot ;.

Changes in the interface language of Word 2007 (the instruction is also suitable for other Office components: Outlok, Excel, Access, PowerPoint):
1. We pass Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Office Tools -> Microsoft Office 2007 Language Settings.
2. If you already have another language pack installed (and this is required to change the language), then you will see the Display Language button - click on it.
Next, you will need to choose in which places to change the language: in support (Help), installation / removal language, etc. To change the language of the interface and menus, select the Language used in menus and dialogs item and change the language.

Ask your neighbor:

What translator program do you use?

You will most likely hear:

Translate - (aka PROMT)

Or Yandex -

Or google-

But - 99% sure - it's not Bing.

Yes, Microsoft has its own translator. And he's pretty good too.

Moreover, it is sometimes MUCH more convenient to use it.

Now I'll tell you.

Start Word.

Open the text, say, in English.

Or type something like:

lay an egg

Click on the "Review" item in the main menu

Find the tricky "Translate" icon on the toolbar

If you click on it, a list will pop up.

Select "Translate selected text".

The right panel will open, in which there will be a translation.

If you decide to use the Word translation mode, I recommend:

select language for translation (screenshot 2, position 2)
configure dictionaries (screenshot 3, position 2)

That's it: translate text into another language without leaving Word!

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The package of text and graphic editors MS Office today is widely used to solve a variety of educational, household and business tasks. If you decide, you will have a multifunctional tool at your disposal.

But in order to fully use it, you must first configure it for yourself. This applies to hotkeys, icon set, editing tools, and how to change the language in Office 2010. By default, the package includes the language of your Windows system. But if you want to set up something else, or for some reason return it back, then you will need to carry out some operations.

Changing the interface language in Office 2010

Language settings in the Office editor package are responsible for displaying interface elements, such as menus, commands and tabs, as well as for help on the main functions of the program. If you have an inappropriate language installed, for example, English, and you want Russian, then you need to understand how to change the default settings. To do this, follow these steps:

launch an Office application, for example, MS Word;
go to the File tab, select Options and then - Language;
in the new window, find the item about setting the language settings and the tab "Selecting languages for the interface and help";
Select the setting you want from the list and click the "Default" button.

After that, the display of the interface should change. Don't worry, Microsoft Office 2010 has a wide range of languages, so you can easily find the right one for you.

Downloading additional languages

In some cases, the Office package does not contain the required languages. In such a situation, they need to be additionally downloaded - the so-called language pack. This is a free procedure carried out on the official Microsoft website in the appropriate section. You are required to specify the version of Office (year and bit depth), select the required language from the drop-down menu and start downloading. Then double-click on it with the left mouse button and go through a simple installation procedure. The new language will be added to your editor package.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated in changing such a setting. Often, the version of Office 2010 already installed has all common languages. Most often, Russian and English are required. However, specific requests are also solved by downloading an additional language pack. The whole process will take no more than 10-20 minutes.