Companion proofing languages for Office 2013
Applies to: Office 2013, Office 365 ProPlus
Summary: Identify the companion proofing languages that are included with Office 2013, and understand Downloadable proofing tool packages for Office 2013.
Audience: IT Professionals
Each language version of Office 2013 includes proofing tools for a set of companion languages. For example, when you deploy the English version of an Office 2013 product, users receive proofing tools for both Spanish and French in addition to English.
Proofing tools include spelling and grammar checkers, thesauruses, and hyphenators. They might also include language-specific editing features such as Language AutoDetect, AutoSummarize, and Intelligent AutoCorrect.
Depending on the number of user interface languages that you want to deploy and the included companion proofing languages, Office 2013 Language Packs might provide all the proofing tools that you want. For more information about Office 2013 Language Packs, see Plan for multilanguage deployment of Office 2013.
Office 2013 also provides downloadable proofing tool packages for the English, Japanese, and Spanish versions of Office 2013. For more information, see Downloadable proofing tool packages later in this article.
Important
This article describes methods to deploy and manage language packs for the Windows Installer-based (MSI) delivery format of Office 2013, which is available for enterprise organizations through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you are deploying Office 365 ProPlus, which uses the Click-to-Run delivery format, see Plan for multilanguage deployment of Click-to-Run-based Office installations.
In this article:
Identify companion proofing languages
Downloadable proofing tool packages
Identify companion proofing languages
The following table lists companion proofing languages for each primary language in Office 2013.
Companion proofing languages for Office 2013
Primary language | Companion proofing languages |
---|---|
Arabic |
Arabic, English, French |
Brazilian |
Brazilian, English, Spanish |
Bulgarian |
Bulgarian, English, German, Russian |
Chinese (Simplified) |
Chinese (Simplified), English |
Chinese (Traditional) |
Chinese (Traditional), English |
Croatian |
Croatian, English, German, Serbian, Italian |
Czech |
Czech, English, German, Slovak |
Danish |
Danish, English, German, Swedish |
Dutch |
Dutch, English, French, German |
English |
English, French, Spanish |
Estonian |
Estonian, English, German, Russian, Finnish, |
Finnish |
Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Russian |
French |
French, English, German, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish |
German |
German, English, French, Italian |
Greek |
Greek, English, French, German |
Hebrew |
Hebrew, English, French, Arabic, Russian |
Hindi |
Hindi, English, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, Kannada, Guajarati, Punjabi, Urdu |
Hungarian |
Hungarian, English, German |
Indonesian |
Indonesian, English |
Italian |
Italian, English, French, German |
Japanese |
Japanese, English |
Kazakh |
Kazakh, English, Russian |
Korean |
Korean, English |
Latvian |
Latvian, English, German, Russian |
Lithuanian |
Lithuanian, English, German, Russian, Polish |
Malay |
Malay, English, Chinese (Simplified) |
Norwegian (Bk) |
Norwegian (Bk), English, German, Norwegian (Ny) |
Polish |
Polish, English, German |
Portuguese |
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish |
Romanian |
Romanian, English, French |
Russian |
Russian, English, Ukrainian, German |
Serbian (Latin) |
Serbian (Latin), English, German, French, Croatian |
Slovak |
Slovak, English, Czech, Hungarian, German |
Slovenian |
Slovenian, English, German, Italian, Croatian |
Spanish |
Spanish, English, French, Basque (Basque), Catalan, Galician, Brazilian |
Swedish |
Swedish, English, Finnish, German |
Thai |
Thai, English, French |
Turkish |
Turkish, English, French, German |
Ukrainian |
Ukrainian, English, Russian, German |
Vietnamese |
Vietnamese, English, French |
Downloadable proofing tool packages
Beginning in Office 2013, free downloadable proofing tool packages in 52 languages are available to all customers who have purchased the on-premises (MSI-installed) version of Office 2013, whether or not they are volume license customers. You can download these proofing tool packages in 32-bit or 64-bit versions from Office Proofing Tools. If you are a volume license customer, you can download the Office 2013 Proofing Tools Kit from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. The Office 2013 Proofing Tools Kit contains the proofing tools for all languages that are available with Office 2013.
The following proofing languages are available:
Arabic
Basque (Basque)
Brazilian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay (Malaysia)
Marathi
Norwegian (Bokmål)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi (India)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian - Cyrillic script
Serbian – Latin script
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil (India)
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrianian
Urdu
Vietnamese
See also
Plan for multilanguage deployment of Office 2013
Customize language setup and settings for Office 2013