Overview of International Features in Office 2000

Office Features Set by the Installation and Editing Languages

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft FrontPage® use the installation language setting to govern default behavior. The installation language setting is the locale ID (LCID) assigned to the value entry InstallLanguage, which Office Setup creates in the following registry subkey:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\LanguageResources

For example, if the value of InstallLanguage is 1041 (Japanese), Word creates its initial Normal.dot file based on Japanese settings and automatically enables commands for Asian text layout.

When a user enables languages for editing, the user is actually turning on language-specific features in Office 2000 applications.

For example, Word automatically detects the language a user is typing based on the languages that the user enabled for editing. If the Proofing Tools features are installed, Word uses the spelling checker, AutoCorrect list, and so on for the languages it detects.

Some Office 2000 applications also display commands and dialog box options based on enabled languages. For example, if you enable an Asian language in Word, you can configure Asian text layout in the Format menu.

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You can deploy Office 2000 so that its default settings are based on a particular language. For more information, see Customizing Language Features.