Updated: 2009-11-12

Not every product in the 2007 Microsoft Office system system is available in every language. In a few scenarios, this results in an installation of Office that includes applications or user interface elements in more than one language.

Applications unavailable in some languages

In a subset of available language versions, an individual application in the 2007 Office system is installed only in English. In other language versions, certain applications are not available at all.

When you deploy any of the following language versions of the 2007 Office system, if Microsoft Groove 2007 is part of the suite you are deploying, it is installed in English:

  • Arabic

  • Chinese - Traditional

  • Chinese - Simple

  • Chinese - Hong Kong

  • Hebrew

  • Hindi

  • Korean

  • Thai

The Hindi language version also installs Microsoft Office Access 2007 in English.

Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Office Visio 2007, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table.

Language Project 2007 Visio 2007 SharePoint Designer 2007

Arabic

yes

yes

yes

Brazilian

yes

yes

yes

Chinese - Hong Kong

no

no

yes

Chinese - Simple

yes

yes

yes

Chinese - Traditional

yes

yes

yes

Czech

yes

yes

yes

Danish

yes

yes

yes

Dutch

yes

yes

yes

English

yes

yes

yes

Finnish

yes

yes

yes

French

yes

yes

yes

German

yes

yes

yes

Greek

yes

yes

yes

Hebrew

yes

yes

yes

Hungarian

yes

yes

yes

Italian

yes

yes

yes

Japanese

yes

yes

yes

Korean

yes

yes

yes

Norwegian

yes

yes

yes

Polish

yes

yes

yes

Portuguese (European)

yes

yes

yes

Russian

yes

yes

yes

Spanish

yes

yes

yes

Swedish

yes

yes

yes

Thai

no

no

yes

Turkish

yes

yes

yes

Language Interface Packs

For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some 2007 Office system applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs. Users must first install a full language version of Office, and then they can install the LIP. They work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:

  • Microsoft Office Word 2007

  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

  • Microsoft Office Excel 2007

  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

  • Shared Office features

The rest of the applications appear in the primary Office installation language. The following table lists the recommended base language for each LIP language.

LIP language Recommended base language

Afrikaans

English

Albanian

English

Amharic

English

Armenian

English

Assamese

English or Hindi

Azeri

English or Russian

Basque

Spanish or French

Bengali - Bangladesh

English

Bengali - India

English or Hindi

Bosnian - Cyrillic

Serbian Latin, English, or Croatian

Bosnian - Latin

Serbian Latin, English, or Croatian

Byelorussian

Russian

Filipino

English

Galician

Spanish

Georgian

English

Gujarati

English or Hindi

Hausa

English

Igbo

English

Icelandic

English

Indonesian Bahasa

English

Inuktitut

English

Irish - Gaelic

English

isiXhosa

English

isiZulu

English

Kannada

English or Hindi

Kazakh

Russian or English

Khmer

English

Ki'che

Spanish

Kyrgyz

Russian

Kiswahili

English

Konkani

English or Hindi

Lao

English or Thai

Luxembourgish

German, English, or French

Macedonian (FYROM)

English

Malay

English

Malay - Brunei

English

Malayalam

English or Hindi

Maltese

English

Maori

English

Marathi

English or Hindi

Nepali

English or Hindi

Norwegian - Nynorsk

Norwegian

Oriya

English or Hindi

Persian

English

Punjabi

English or Hindi

Quechua

Spanish

Setswana

English

Sesotho sa Leboa

English

Sinhalese

English

Tamil

English or Hindi

Tatar

Russian

Telugu

English or Hindi

Urdu

English

Uzbek - Latin

English or Russian

Vietnamese

English

Welsh

English

Yoruba

English

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