Office 2003 Tips & Tricks: Change Menu & Help Language

If you have on your PC the FETEW version of Office 2003, you can change the user interface or Help language, as it includes the Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack.

Please be extremely careful before changing interface languages as  this has an impact on the layout of Office documents as well.  E.g. when you have programs working on Office documents some of these programs will break when confronted with other language input.

If you want to change the Menu and Help Language to another language (e.g. Dutch), do the following:

  1. In Microsoft Windows XP, on the Windows Start menu, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings.

    In Windows 2000, on the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and then click Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings.
     

  2. On the User Interface and Help tab, do one of the following:

    HideChange the user interface language

    • In the Display Office 2003 in box, click the language you want.



       

    HideChange the Help language

    • In the Display Help in box, click the language you want.



       
  3. In  both cases click OK and your changes will be applied the next time you start your Office 2003.