Comments on: Change menu languages in Office 2004 for Mac?

Question: Change menu languages in Office 2004 for Mac?

PenguinBukkake — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:43:37 -0800

I'm using a friend's Mac, and I need to use Office, but he is Dutch and all his Office 2004 menus are in Dutch. How do I switch to English? m.i.

By: PenguinBukkake

PenguinBukkake — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:44:32 -0800

I tried to babelfish some menu names and use this page but it didn't work: still Dutch. Thanks for your help!

By: xil

xil — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:47:44 -0800

You shouldn't have to do anything special with Office itself.

Go to System Preferences ("Systeemvoorkeuren"), choose the International section ("Landintellingen", with the icon of the flag), and drag English to the top of the list. Quit and restart Office, and it should show up in English.

By: xil

xil — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:48:53 -0800

Excuse me, "Landinstellingen", that is.

By: PenguinBukkake

PenguinBukkake — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:57:16 -0800

everything's in English now but Office

By: PenguinBukkake

PenguinBukkake — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:57:43 -0800

By: logicpunk

logicpunk — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:06:34 -0800

I don't think you can do it... had a similar problem with Office 2003 where everything was displayed in japanese. Only choice was to reinstall office with english support.

Not sure if it's the same for Office 2004 on a mac, but for Office 2003 you need to have a Multilingual User Interface pack version

By: xil

xil — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:18:34 -0800

Well, that's pretty lame; looks like Office still doesn't implement localization correctly (as one of their developers freely admits).

By: easternblot

easternblot — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:40:15 -0800

You can't. It's a Dutch version of Office. If you want English, you need to install an English version. Easiest solution would be to download OpenOffice and open your word documents in there.

By: geekyguy

geekyguy — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:42:50 -0800

Or you could learn to live without the menus. [.doc]
that is the result of a Word macro called ListCommands. To create your own, hit alt-f8, check the dropdown, (alt-a), for Word commands and then type lis to jump to the ListCommands macro. It should help you with just about everything you'd like to do.

Alternately, short of downloading OpenOffice you might take a look at Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

By: PenguinBukkake

PenguinBukkake — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:35:36 -0800

:(

thanks everybody