![]() | About multilingual features in Office |
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You can use the following multilingual features to create, edit, and view text in many languages.
![]() | Unicode characters and international keyboards |
Unicode is an encoding standard that can represent the characters of most written languages with a single character set.
In Office for Mac 2011, you can type, display, and print Unicode characters that are associated with the following keyboards:
Australian, Austrian, Belgian, Brazilian, British, Bulgarian, Canadian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dvorak, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian (F.Y.R.O.), Northern Sami, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss French, Swiss German, Turkish, U.S., Ukrainian, Unicode Hex Input, and Welsh.
You can also use the following Mac OS X input methods: Hangul, Kotoeri, Murasu Anjal Tamil, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
![]() | Chinese |
You can use Office to work in Chinese. For example, you can type Chinese characters in all Office applications, use phonetic guides, and use Chinese word-breaking and text-formatting conventions in Word.
To find out how to turn on Chinese language features, see Turn on Chinese language features.
![]() | Japanese |
You can use Office to work in Japanese. For example, you can type Japanese characters in all Office applications, use phonetic guides in Excel, and use Japanese word-breaking and text-formatting conventions in Word.
To find out how to turn on Japanese language features, see Turn on Japanese language features.
![]() | Mixed characters |
In Office documents, you can display data that consists of both Latin and East Asian language characters.
![]() | Proofing tools |
When you use the keyboard layout for a language that comes with proofing tools, you can also use the proofing tools for that language. For more information, see Proofing tools that are available for each language.
![]() | French spelling rules |
If you work in French, you can set the spelling preferences of Word and PowerPoint to use traditional (pre-reform) spelling rules, new (post-reform) spelling rules, or both, to check the spelling of French text. You can also enforce accented uppercase.
![]() | German post-reform spelling rules |
If you work in German, you can set the spelling preferences of Word to use post-reform spelling rules to check the spelling of German text.
![]() | Portuguese (Brazil) spelling rules |
If you work in Portuguese (Brazil), you can set the spelling preferences of Word to use Brazilian traditional (pre-reform) spelling rules, new (post-reform) spelling rules, or both.
![]() | Portuguese spelling rules |
If you work in Portuguese, you can set the spelling preferences of Word to use traditional (pre-reform) spelling rules, new (post-reform) spelling rules, or both, to check the spelling of Portuguese text.
![]() | Russian spelling rules |
You can enforce Cyrillic letter IO instead of allowing the Cyrillic letter IE.
![]() | Spanish spelling rules |
If you work in Spanish, you can set the spelling preferences of Word to use Tuteo verb form spelling rules, Voseo verb form spelling rules, or both to check the spelling of Spanish text.
![]() | Euro currency values |
You can type and print euro currency values. For more information, see Keyboard shortcuts for the euro currency symbol.
In Excel, you can perform financial calculations involving the euro.
![]() | Date, time, and number formats |
When you enter dates, times, and numbers, Office displays them based on your settings in Mac OS X Language & Text preferences.
![]() | Multilingual sorting rules |
In Word, you can sort data in tables and lists according to the rules of many supported languages. To set the sorting language, on the Table menu, click Sort, and then click Options.
![]() | Web pages |
When you create a Web page in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, you can set the default character set encoding so that the page displays properly in Web browsers all over the world.
![]() | Office for Mac in other languages |
Office for Mac is available in the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
Danish (as part of the Nordic Pack)
Dutch
English
Finnish (as part of the Nordic Pack)
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Norwegian (as part of the Nordic Pack)
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
To learn more about other language versions of Office for Mac, visit the
Microsoft for Mac International Sites page.
![]() | Note For languages in the Nordic Pack, Help content is provided in English. |