Deploy Language Packs for Microsoft Office 2010

Key Decisions

Language support for Office 2010

The most basic installation of an Office 2010 product consists of the core package plus one language.

Language pack options for Office 2010

Option
Multi-language pack

What is it?
The Office 2010 Multi-Language Pack contains all of the language packs for the Office 2010.

When do you need it?

Where do you get it?

Resources
Customize language setup and settings for Office 2010 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 863) Customize language setup and settings for Office 2010 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 863) Companion proofing languages (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 864) Plan for multi-language deployment (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 865) Customize language setup and settings for Office 2010 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 863) Companion proofing languages (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 864)

Which language version of Microsoft Office 2010 will your organization require? Do you need a language pack?

Microsoft Office 2010 Language Support

Microsoft Office 2010 Language neutral core product Language Companion proofing languages
Proofing tools Language pack
Microsoft Office 2010 Language Packs have the files to install an individual language plus the associated companion proofing languages. For a list of companion languages, see Companion proofing languages
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151864).

Use the Office 2010 Multi-Language Pack The Office 2010 Multi-Language Pack when you have to deploy multiple languages is available through Microsoft Volume to organization. Licensing programs.

Tasks
Gather organizations language requirements. Evaluate language packs, companion languages and proofing tools.

Use this option if your users need both the user interface and/or the companion proofing tools for the language.

All Office 2010 Language Packs are included with the Office 2010 MultiLanguage Pack. These are available through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

Evaluate

Outputs

List of language requirements

Adding more languages is as simple as copying additional language packs to the network installation point. Setup combines the language-neutral core package with the language-specific packages in a seamless installation process.

Microsoft Office 2010 Proofing Tool Kit for allow users to edit documents in more than 50 languages. Depending on the language, these editing tools might include spelling and grammar checkers, thesauruses, and hyphenators. Proofing tools might also include language-specific editing features such as Language AutoDetect, AutoSummarize, and Intelligent AutoCorrect. The Office Proofing Tools Kit 2010 contains all proofing tools for all languages. Office 2010 Language Packs include proofing tools for companion languages. For example, when you deploy the English version of an Office product, users receive Proofing Tools for both Spanish and French in addition to English. Depending on the number of user interface languages you want to deploy and the included companion languages, single language packs might provide all of the Proofing Tools you need.

Use this option if a few language packs with the included companion proofing languages cannot provide all the language support needed for users in an organization that need to edit Office files in languages they do not have installed. For a list of companion languages, see Companion proofing languages (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=15 1864).

The Office 2010 Proofing Tools Kit is available with the Office 2010 MultiLanguage Pack. Proofing tools for individual languages are also included in the Office 2010 Language Packs.

Related Topics

Microsoft Office 2010 Multi-Language Pack

Setup changes prior to Office 2010 Setup architecture overview for Office 2010
Office 2010 Multi-Language Pack

Office Language Interface Pack (LIP)

38 Office 2010 Language Packs Office 2010 Language Pack Language (for example English) Companion proofing languages (for example English, French, Spanish)

The Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) provides a limited translated version of the Office interface. User assistance or help (F1) is not translated into the LIP language: It will always remain in the language of your original Office installation. In most cases, the Office LIP contains a spelling checker for the language. Once you install the LIP you can switch the language from your base language version of Office to the language of the LIP you installed through Microsoft Office Language settings.

Use this option if the language you need is not available in the Office 2010 MultiLanguage Pack or an Office 2010 Language Pack.

The Office LIPs for Office 2010 are available on the Microsoft Download Center. For a list of available Office LIPs, see Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) downloads (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkI d=208404).

Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) Blog (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 867) What is the difference between an Office language Interface pack (LIP) and an Office Language Pack? (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=151 866)

Key Decisions

Multilanguage deployment flow chart

The following diagram identifies which deployment solution is appropriate for a given scenario.

Companion languages
The following table lists the companion languages that are included with each of the language packs in Office 2010.
Primary language
Arabic

Which languages do you want to deploy? Will different groups require different languages? Are proofing tools needed? Language customizations needed?
Users only need one language? Yes More than one language available? Yes Same language thats on users operating system? Yes Let Office default to operating system language or use Config.xml to specify language to install. Yes Done Start

Companion proofing languages

Primary language
Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian (Bk) Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovenian Spanish

Companion proofing languages

Arabic, English, French Brazilian, English, Spanish Bulgarian, English, German, Russian Chinese (Simplified), English

Kazakh, English Korean, English Latvian, English, German, Russian Lithuanian, English, German, Russian, Polish Norwegian (Bk), English, German, Norwegian (Ny)

Brazilian Bulgarian Chinese (Simplified) Chinese

(Traditional)

Tasks

No

No Use Config.xml to specify the language to install.

Plan

Gather language and distribution requirements. Identify deployment solution. Gather customization requirements.

Chinese (Traditional), English

No

Run Setup.exe.

Croatian Czech Danish

Croatian, English, German, Serbian, Italian Czech, English, German, Slovak Danish, English, German, Swedish Dutch, English, French, German English, French, Spanish Estonian, English, German, Russian, Finnish Finish, English, Swedish, German, Russian French, English, German, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish German, English, French, Italian Greek, English, French, German Hebrew, English, French, Arabic, Russian Hindi, English, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, Kannada, Guajarati Punjabi, Urdu Hungarian, English, German Italian, English, French, German Japanese, English

Polish, English, German Portuguese, English, French, Spanish Romanian, English, French Russian, English, Ukrainian, German Serbian (Latin), English, German, French, Croatian

Outputs

Dutch

List of languages needed by user groups List of any proofing tools needed Configuration and customization plan Distribution plan

Need dialog boxes in multiple languages?

Yes

1. Copy the Language Pack or Multi-Language Pack to the installation share. 2. Use Config.xml to specify the languages to install. 3. Run Setup.exe.

Need to edit in languages without UI?

Yes

Companion languages include language needed?

Yes Done

English Estonian Finnish French

No Done

No Install additional language pack or for Office 2010 Proofing Tools Kit: 1. Use the Office 2010 Proofing Tools Config.xml to specify the languages to install. 2. Install the Office 2010 Proofing Tools Kit.

Slovak, English, Czech, Hungarian, German Slovenian, English, German, Italian, Croatian Spanish, English, French, Basque, Catalan, Galician, Brazilian Swedish, English, Finnish, German Thai, English, French Turkish, English, French, German Ukrainian, English, Russian, German

No

German Greek Hebrew Hindi

Related Topics

Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian

Plan for multilanguage deployment of Office 2010 Companion proofing languages for Office 2010

Hungarian Italian Japanese

Key Decisions

Config.xml file for language packs

Setup uses the Config.xml file that resides in the core product folder for the product that you are installing. You can use the /config Setup command-line option to specify the location of the Config.xml file. For example: \\server\share\setup.exe /config \\server\share\ProPlus.WW\config.xml

After validation, is solution ready for rollout?

Language identifiers
Microsoft Office 2010 offers localized versions in all the languages listed in the following table. Folders for the language-specific components are identified by the language tag shown in the table. The Windows operating system uses locale identifiers (LCIDs) to identify languages in the Windows registry.
Language
Arabic Bulgarian Chinese (Simplified) Chinese Croatian Czech

Tasks

Configure Setup for languages by using Config.xml. Customize Setup for languages by using the Office Customization Tool OCT. Configure Setup for proofing tools by using the proofing tools Config.xml. Test solution. Deploy solution.

Geographic area
Saudi Arabia Bulgaria People's Republic of China Taiwanese Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Netherlands United States Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Israel India Hungary Italy Japan Kazakhstan Korea Latvia Lithuania Norway Poland Brazil Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Thailand Turkey Ukrainian

Language tag (ll-cc) LCID

ar-sa bg-bg zh-cn zh-tw hr-hr cs-cz da-dk nl-nl en-us et-ee fi-fi fr-fr de-de el-gr he-il hi-in hu-hu it-it ja-jp kk-kh ko-kr lv-lv lt-lt nb-no pl-pl pt-br pt-pt ro-ro ru-ru sr-sp-latn sk-sk sl-si es-es sv-se th-th tr-tr uk-ua 1025 1026 2052 1028 1050 1029 1030 1043 1033 1061 1035 1036 1031 1032 1037 1081 1038 1040 1041 1087 1042 1062 1063 1044 1045 1046 2070 1048 1049 2074 1051 1060 3082 1053 1054 1055 1058

Danish Dutch

Language settings in the Office Customization Tool

You use the Office Customization Tool (OCT) to create a Setup customization file (.msp file) that Setup applies during the installation. Settings specified in the OCT are the default settings. Users can modify the settings after the installation. Configuring the default language settings in the OCT is useful if these settings need to be different than the language specified by the computer's Windows user locale setting. To run the OCT, type setup.exe /admin at the command prompt.

Outputs

English Estonian

Deploy

Configured Config.xml files Customization .msp file Office 2010 with appropriate languages and/or proofing tools installed

Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi

Related Topics

Config.xml file for Office Proofing Tools Kit

To customize an installation of the Office 2010 Proofing Tools Kit, modify the Config.xml file in the ProofKit.WW folder. For each set of proofing tools that you do not want to install, set the State attribute to Absent.

Hungarian Italian Japanese Kazakh Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian (Bokml) Polish Portuguese Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (Latin) Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian

Customize language setup and settings for Office 2010 Language identifiers and OptionState Id values in Office 2010

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