arabic plug in

Question

Hi guy

how can I add arabic language into word translation service, because when I choose a word in a document, and right click> translate, there is no arabic dictionary only (english, french, spanish, Japanese, and german)

is there any plug in for arabic I can add

thanks

Answer 1

The Bilingual Dictionary feature offers a few more languages but even that won't help for Arabic.

Right-to-Left scripts are not supported in Mac Office. Although the characters can be displayed they do not "connect" as required so virtually everything is misspelled & incapable of being corrected, making proofing tools for those languages pointless.

I'm not sure which direction you're trying to translate, but if you paste an English word or phrase into a blank document you can use the Translate feature in the Reference Tools pane to access the online translation service. That may satisfy an occasional requirement but not for frequent use & I'm not sure how well it will work in the Arabic-to-English direction. If you need to work in RTL scripts you'll need to use a word processing program that supports it such as what's suggested in the links provided by Ty_hell_heaven. Other discussions are available as well if you take advantage of the Community's Search feature using terms such as arabic.

Answer 2

As far as i know off it is not there, check the suggestions here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/arabic-support-for-office-mac-2011/13803acf-15e0-4713-8edf-b467c4ffc16b

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/why-their-is-no-support-for-arabic-langue-in/ff75f4a6-c1f1-45ae-90d3-19cb851af6e7