The Office 2016 Multi-Language Pack includes Proofing Tools and other support for other languages. There are two main steps to getting your additional language.
If you want the Language Pack for Office 2016 on a computer that you manage, such as a personally owned computer, refer to the Language Accessory Pack for Office 2016 article.
Step 1: In?stall the Office Multi-Language Pack from Software Center
The Microsoft Office 2016 Multi-Language Pack is available to your CAS ITS managed computer via Software Center. After clicking Install in Software Center, you will be prompted to select a Microsoft Product.
There are three products supported by this Pack:
The Office 2016 Multi-Language Pack includes Proofing Tools and other support for other languages. There are two main steps to getting your additional language.If you want the Language Pack for Office 2016 on a computer that you manage, such as a personally owned computer, refer to the Language Accessory Pack for Office 2016 article. Language versions and language interface packs in Office 2016. 3/14/2018; 3 minutes to read; In this article. Summary: Learn about the language packs and language interface packs that are available for Office. An installation of Office 2016 can include applications or user interface elements in more than one language because some Office 2016 products are not available in every language.
- Microsoft Office 2016
- Applies To: Excel 2016, Word 2016, Outlook 2016, PowerPoint 2016, OneNote 2016, Publisher 2016, Access 2016, and more ...
- Microsoft Project 2016
- Microsoft Visio 2016
From the list, select the one product that you want to install with the corresponding language. For example, if I want to install Spanish for Microsoft Word 2016, you would select:
- Microsoft Office Language Pack 2016 - Spanish/Espa?ol
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Click Continue after you selected your one product with the desired language from the list.
If you agree the terms of the agreement, check the box and then click Continue again.
Click Install Now to begin the install.
In our testing, the install process only takes a few minutes; time may vary depending on the language selected, speed of your network connection, and speed of your computer. After the installation is complete, you will see a 'successfully installed' message, as shown:
Click Close to exit the installer.
If you have additional products and/or languages you want to install, you can re-run the install (click Reinstall) via Software Center. Complete the installation of the new language or product using the steps above.
Step 2: Configure Office language
After you install the language accessory pack, you must configure Office for your new language preferences.- Click the Start Menu.
- Type 'Office Lang', in the Search programs and files field.
- Click the Office 2016 Language Preferences program that shows up.
- Under Choose Editing Languages, make sure that the language you want to use is added to this list.
- If the language accessory pack includes proofing tools for that language, the Proofing column shows Installed.
- Under Choose Display and Help languages, you can change the default display and help languages for all your Office applications.
- If the language accessory pack contained display and help for the language, you should see it listed here.
- Restart all Office programs for your changes to take effect.
Summary: Learn about the language packs and language interface packs that are available for Office.
An installation of Office 2016 can include applications or user interface elements in more than one language because some Office 2016 products are not available in every language.
This article describes the language versions that are available for a subset of Office 2016 applications, the Office 2016 applications that will work with Language Interface Packs, and the recommended base languages to install for Office 2016 Language Interface Packs.
Important
This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for versions of Office 2016 that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology, which are available for enterprises through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you're deploying Microsoft 365 Apps, which uses the Click-to-Run installation technology, see Overview of deploying languages for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Applications and language availability
In some non-English language versions of Office 2016, a specific Office 2016 application may not be available. For example, Access 2016 is not available in Hindi. Therefore, the Hindi language version of Office 2016 is installed in English.
Some Office applications are not available in some languages. Project 2016 and Visio 2016 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table.
Language availability for the 2016 versions of Project and Visio
| Language | Project 2016 | Visio 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | yes | yes |
| Brazilian | yes | yes |
| Bulgarian | no | no |
| Chinese - Simple | yes | yes |
| Chinese - Traditional | yes | yes |
| Croatian | no | no |
| Czech | yes | yes |
| Danish | yes | yes |
| Dutch | yes | yes |
| English | yes | yes |
| Finnish | yes | yes |
| French | yes | yes |
| German | yes | yes |
| Greek | yes | yes |
| Hebrew | yes | yes |
| Hindi | no | no |
| Hungarian | yes | yes |
| Italian | yes | yes |
| Japanese | yes | yes |
| Korean | yes | yes |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | yes | yes |
| Polish | yes | yes |
| Portuguese (European) | yes | yes |
| Romanian | no | no |
| Russian | yes | yes |
| Serbian (Latin) | no | no |
| Slovak | yes | yes |
| Slovenian | yes | yes |
| Spanish | yes | yes |
| Swedish | yes | yes |
| Thai | no | no |
| Turkish | yes | yes |
| Ukrainian | yes | yes |
Language Interface Packs
For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some Office 2016 applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs (LIPs). These LIPs localize the user interface only, and not the Help content. Administrators must first install a fully localized base language version (see the table later in this section) of Office 2016, and then install the LIP. Users can then work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:
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Excel 2016
OneNote 2016
Outlook 2016
PowerPoint 2016
Shared Office features
Word 2016
Skype for Business 2016, but only for the following languages:
Albanian: sq-SQ
Azerbaijani (Latin): az-Latn-AZ
Basque: eu-ES
Belarusian: be-BE
Catalan: ca-ES
Farsi (Persian): fa-IR
Filipino: fil-PH
Galician: gl-ES
Macedonian: mk-MK
Serbian (Cyrillic): sr-Cyrl-RS
Uzbek (Latin): uz-Latn-UZ
The remaining Office applications appear in the base Office 2016 installation language. The following table lists the base language for each LIP language.
Base languages available for Language Interface Packs
| LIP language | Base language |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | English |
| Albanian | English |
| Amharic | English |
| Armenian | English |
| Assamese | English |
| Azerbaijani - Latin script | English |
| Bangla (Bangladesh) | English |
| Basque (Basque) | Spanish |
| Belarusian | Russian |
| Bengali - India | English or Hindi |
| Bosnian - Latin script | English |
| Catalan | Spanish |
| Dari | English |
| Filipino | English |
| Galician | Spanish |
| Georgian | English |
| Gujarati | English |
| Icelandic | English |
| Irish - Gaelic | English |
| Kannada | English |
| Khmer | English |
| Kiswahili | English |
| Konkani | English |
| Krygyz | Russian |
| Luxembourgish | French |
| Macedonian (FYROM) | English |
| Malayalam | English |
| Maltese | English |
| Maori | English |
| Marathi | English |
| Mongolian - Cyrillic script | English |
| Nepali | English |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | Norwegian (Bokmål) |
| Odia | English |
| Persian (Farsi) | English |
| Punjabi (India) | English |
| Quechua (Peru) | Spanish |
| Scottish Gaelic | English |
| Serbian - Cyrillic script | Serbian (Latin) |
| Serbian - Cyrillic script (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | English |
| Sindhi (Pakistan) | English |
| Sinhala | English |
| Tamil (India) | English |
| Tatar | Russian |
| Telugu | English |
| Turkmen | Russian |
| Urdu | English |
| Uyghur | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Uzbek - Latin script | English or Russian |
| Valencian | Spanish |
| Welsh | English |
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For information about how to obtain the LIP you need for your deployment, see Download language packs, language interface packs, and proofing tools for volume license versions of Office.