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An Overview of Language Support in Word, Office, and Windows

If your work requires you to edit in multiple languages, or to share your documents with others located outside the United States and English-speaking Canada, you will appreciate the multilanguage support that Word 2003 provides. Working together with international support features built into Windows, you can do all the following:

  • Enter text in foreign languages, including special characters not normally found on an English keyboard.

  • Use Word's Auto-Language Detect feature to automatically detect which language you are writing in and apply relevant formats and styles accordingly.

  • Proofread in French and Spanish without purchasing any additional proofing tools, and proofread in more than 30 other languages by purchasing a single Microsoft add-on product.

  • Display the Word and Office user interfaces and access Help in languages other than English.

In this chapter, you will learn how to customize your computer for international use by working with the features built into Windows and Word 2003, as well as optional products such as the Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack.



    		Part I: Word Basics: Get Productive Fast
    		Part II: Building Slicker Documents Faster
    		Part III: The Visual Word: Making Documents Look Great
    		Part IV: Industrial-Strength Document Production Techniques
    		Part V: Word, the Internet, and XML
    		Part VI: The Corporate Word
    		Chapter 26. Managing Document Collaboration and Revisions
    		Chapter 27. Online Document Collaboration Using SharePoint Team Services
    		Chapter 28. Creating Forms
    		Chapter 29. Leveraging Microsoft Office 2003's Power from Word
    		Chapter 30. Using Word as an Email Editor
    		Chapter 31. Customizing Word
    		Chapter 32. Recording and Running Visual Basic Macros
    		Chapter 33. Word Document Privacy and Security Options
    		Chapter 34. Managing Word More Effectively
    		Chapter 35. Using Word's Multilingual and Accessibility Features
    		An Overview of Language Support in Word, Office, and Windows
    		Setting Up Windows for International Environments
    		Word and Office Multilingual Features
    		Entering Asian Text with Input Method Editors
    		Changing Proofing Languages During a Spell Check
    		Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack
    		Changing Language Settings After You've Installed the Office 2003 MUI Pack
    		Using Foreign Dates and Times in Your Documents
    		Language File Organization in Microsoft Office
    		Unicode and International Font Support in Word 2003
    		Troubleshooting
    		Appendix A. What's on Que's WOPR CD