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Recently, we showed you how to download and install a Language Interface Pack for Microsoft Office 2010 suite. To use an installed Language Pack, you need to select and apply it.

In this guide, we will show you how to change Office 2010 language. Note that you can’t use Office 2010 Beta language pack for RTM suite.

Change Office 2010 display language

Language

1. Launch an Office 2010 application (Word, Excel or any other).

Best Answer: Microsoft Word controls the language settings for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2011. Use Tools > Language in Word to set the default language. Use Tools > Language in Word to set the default language. You'll probably have to restart your Office application in order for ths change to take effect. Editing - To change your editing language for this file in Office for Mac go to Tools > Language, select your language, and click OK. To make it the default for all new documents click Default.

2. Go to File menu and click Options to open settings box. In the left pane, click the Language tab to see a list of installed languages. If you haven’t installed a language pack yet, please follow our how to install Office 2010 language pack guide.

3. Next, under Choose display language, select your new language and click Set as default button. You can also set your new language as the help language by clicking the Set as default button under Help language.

4. Click Ok button. You will be asked to restart the Office program, and doing so will change your Office 2010 display language.

5. You are done!

If you have downloaded a trial version of Office 2010 RTM, refer to our how to extend Office 2010 trial period guide to use the Office 2010 suite for 180 days.

Does anybody know how to set the language for a text box?
I have tried this:
set LanguageID of theTextRange to english
but I get the run-time error that the variable 'english' is not defined ...
I've googled a lot, and tried other variants, to no avail.
Can anybody help me?
Best regards,
Gabriel.
PS:
I am trying to change the language for all text boxes in a presentation.
This is the applescript I've com up with so far:
tell application 'Microsoft PowerPoint'
activate -- bring it to the front
set thePres to active presentation
set theSlides to slides of thePres
repeat with theSlide in theSlides
set theShapes to shapes of theSlide
repeat with theShape in theShapes
if get has text frame of theShape then
set theTextFrame to text frame of theShape
set theTextRange to text range of theTextFrame
set LanguageID of theTextRange to english
-- set language ID of selection to english uk
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
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