What affects the display language when editing documents online?

Question

When sharing a document from Onedrive (for business) with a simple shared link, the editor (Word online) defaults to Swedish as display language. Is there a way to change this? Or at least find what affects it.. For example:

Scenario 1: I share a word document from my business account (usageLocation SE, PreferredLanguage EN set in Azure AD), and the document is opened by a user outside our organization. They do not speak Swedish, so they should have their own settings. The editor still defaults to Swedish.

Scenario 2: For testing purposes I share a word document from my business account (usageLocation SE, PreferredLanguage EN set in Azure AD) and open the link in a number of different configurations:

Work PC (Win 10 20H2, Region Sweden, display language English)
Chrome: Word is in Swedish
Edge (chromium): Word is in English

Work Mac (10.15.3, Region Sweden, display language English)
Chrome: Word is in English
Firefox: Word is in English
Safari: Word is in English

Personal PC (Win 10 2004, Region Sweden, display language English)
Chrome: Word is in Swedish
Firefox: Word is in Swedish

Im going a bit crazy over this since I cant figure it out and I would love some advice. What does actually affect this? Computer settings, Org-settings?

Sorry if I made mistakes posting this, new to the forums.

Answer 1

Hi @knowsnothin ,

Per my test, factors may affect Word Online display laguage are:

1. Browser type
2. Browser display language
3. O365 display language

I suggest you to use Chrome and set browser display language to English.

Also, please refer to the following article to check whether the user has set the language to English as display language in O365:
Change your display language and time zone in Microsoft 365 for Business

I hope this information has been useful, please let me know if you still need assistance.

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