Mixed language versions of Office 2010
Applies to: Office 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2015-05-17
An installation of Microsoft Office 2010 suites can include applications or user interface elements in more than one language because some Office 2010 products are not available in every language.
This article describes which language versions are available for a subset of the Office 2010 applications, which Office 2010 applications will work with Language Interface Packs, and the recommended base languages to install for Office 2010 Language Interface Packs.
In this article:
Applications and language availability
Language Interface Packs
Applications and language availability
Individual applications will install with the Office 2010 language version installed with a few exceptions. One exception is that the Hindi language version installs Microsoft Access 2010 in English.
In other language versions, certain applications are not available at all.
Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table.
| Language | Project 2010 | Visio 2010 | SharePoint Designer 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|
Arabic |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Brazilian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Chinese - Simple |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Chinese - Traditional |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Czech |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Danish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Dutch |
yes |
yes |
yes |
English |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Finnish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
French |
yes |
yes |
yes |
German |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Greek |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Hebrew |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Hindi |
no |
no |
yes |
Hungarian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Italian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Japanese |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Korean |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Norwegian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Polish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Portuguese (European) |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Russian |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Slovak |
yes |
yes |
no |
Slovenian |
yes |
yes |
no |
Spanish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Swedish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Thai |
no |
no |
yes |
Turkish |
yes |
yes |
yes |
Ukrainian |
yes |
yes |
no |
Language Interface Packs
For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some Office 2010 applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs (LIPs). Users must first install a full language version of Office 2010, and then they can install the LIP. They work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:
Microsoft Word 2010
Microsoft Outlook 2010
Microsoft Excel 2010
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Shared Office features
The rest of the applications appear in the primary Office 2010 installation language. The following table lists the recommended base language for each LIP language.
| LIP language | Recommended base language |
|---|---|
Afrikaans |
English |
Albanian |
English |
Amharic |
English |
Armenian |
English |
Assamese |
English or Hindi |
Azeri |
English or Russian |
Basque (Basque) |
Spanish or French |
Belarusian |
Russian |
Bengali - Bangladesh |
English |
Bengali - India |
English or Hindi |
Bosnian - Cyrillic |
Serbian Latin, English, or Croatian |
Bosnian - Latin |
Serbian Latin, English, or Croatian |
Filipino |
English |
Galician |
Spanish |
Georgian |
English |
Gujarati |
English or Hindi |
Hausa |
English |
Igbo |
English |
Icelandic |
English |
Indonesian Bahasa |
English |
Inuktitut |
English |
Irish - Gaelic |
English |
isiXhosa |
English |
isiZulu |
English |
Kannada |
English or Hindi |
Kazakh |
Russian or English |
Khmer |
English |
Ki'che |
Spanish |
Kyrgyz |
Russian |
Kiswahili |
English |
Konkani |
English or Hindi |
Luxembourgish |
German, English, or French |
Macedonian (FYROM) |
English |
Malay |
English |
Malay - Brunei |
English |
Malayalam |
English or Hindi |
Maltese |
English |
Maori |
English |
Marathi |
English or Hindi |
Mongolian (Cyrillic) |
English or Russian |
Nepali |
English or Hindi |
Norwegian - Nynorsk |
Norwegian |
Oriya |
English or Hindi |
Persian |
English |
Punjabi |
English or Hindi |
Quechua |
Spanish |
Setswana |
English |
Sesotho sa Leboa |
English |
Sinhalese |
English |
Tamil |
English or Hindi |
Tatar |
Russian |
Telugu |
English or Hindi |
Turkmen |
English or Russian |
Urdu |
English |
Uzbek - Latin |
English or Russian |
Vietnamese |
English |
Welsh |
English |
Yoruba |
English |