Today we will discuss the various methods available to deploy additional languages for Office 2007. Key ---------- MLP = Multi Language Pack LP = Language Pack When talking about adding additional languages to Office 2007 there are two topics to discuss. Deploying Office 2007 with additional languages included.

Install the latest Windows service pack if you haven't yet. Since you are using Windows 8, you can skip this step because there aren't yet any service packs available for it (as of the time that I'm writing this comment in December 2012). Step 1: Install the language accessory pack. The language accessory pack files are available for free download for either the 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) architectures of Office. Select the version of Office you're using from the tabs below, then select the language desired from the drop-down list.

(During Office 2007 install) 2. Deploying additional languages after Office 2007 has already been installed. (Post Office 2007 install) How to deploy additional languages during the installation of Office 2007. To accomplish this we will need to add the required language to our installation source, and then modify the config.xml to include that language during our installation. We will be adding Italian to our Office 2007 ProPlus installation.

First I will copy the ProPlus media from the CD to a folder on my desktop. Screenshot - In order to incorporate the Italian language pack into my Office 2007 ProPlus installation source, I will locate all of the it-it folders from the root of my MLP disc one, and copy them into the Office 2007 source folder. Screenshot- You will notice in my screenshot that I had copied over a few Italian folders that do not correlate with my original Office 2007 product.

For example, you can see that I have a Groove.it-it folder however ProPlus doesn’t include Groove. Technically I would only need to copy over the Italian folders for the products that are included with ProPlus. Word.it-it, Excel.it-it etc. It is recommended to also include the Omui.it-it, Xmui.it-it folders in the Office source. It won’t hurt anything to have the additional it-it folders (Like groove.it-it) and in fact isn’t a bad idea to do so.

Because you can add multiple products to the Office Source folder having groove.it-it already there might come in handy in the future if groove/enterprise gets added to the Office source. Now that I have English and Italian copies of all of the individual products in the ProPlus source, I need to specify that during the installation of Office I will want both languages installed. I will do this through the use of the config.xml.

In the ProPlus.ww folder I opened the default config.xml with notepad and modified it to read like so: The AddLanguage element is what tells Office to install the languages. In my config.xml above I am specifying to install English and Italian. The shelltransform=”yes” tells office that right click menus, and some folder menu items will also be in English. For example, the language tools folder will be in English. Had I set the Shelltransform=”yes” on Italian, the language tools folder name would be in Italian as would the context menus when I right click on a Docx for example. Another option is to use addlanguage=”match”. Using match will cause the installation to install whichever language matches the primary language of the operating system (provided that language is in the Office source).

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Because my operating system is using English as the primary language the following entry in the config.xml would have exactly the same effect as my config.xml example above and install both English and Italian and set the shelltransform to English. Now I will run setup and call the config.xml: server share Office2007 setup.exe /config Example: Deploying additional languages after Office 2007 has already been installed. (Post Office 2007 install) There are a few different ways to accomplish this.

“Modify” the installation of Office 2007 (which is already installed) to include an additional language. I think of this like “slipstreaming” the language pack into the Office 2007 install. Install a language pack as a standalone application. The first option to “modify” the installation of Office 2007 to include another language (slipstream the additional language into the Office install) is done like so: Even though I already have Office 2007 installed, I am going to add an additional language to my Office 2007 installation source, modify the config.xml for ProPlus and re-run setup calling the new config.xml. I am also going to use the “RemoveLanguage” element here to remove Italian to show how that works. Here is my source from the previous section. I am going to add French to this source.