Office '97 under Windows 98SE

Am inquiring on behalf of a French and English speaking acquaintance
from my work.

His family runs Windows 98SE and Office '97 Professional Edition on an
older family computer. Both the OS and the Office'97 were originally in
English. A French speaking relative, previously living with the family,
has "apparently" altered Office'97 such that all the Office programs
appear and run in French. The Title Bar, menu bar, status bar, dialogue
boxes, Help menu, popups, Spell-check, etc, etc are now all in French.

The links to Office '97 in the Windows 98SE start menu are still in
English.

The relative is now gone, the aging parents don't give a hoot and the
son (my acquaintance) wants to get Office'97 back into English on the
family computer. He has a laptop at work running Windows XP (configured
like Windows 98SE) running Office 2000, both in English. He wants to
be able to use BOTH versions of Office, on both computers, in English
for his work stuff.

I understand that all it might take to accomplish this is to manually
replace a "language" file (or files) in a folder that relates to
Office'97. Would the original file(s) still be available on his
hard-drive? If not, which are they...and where would he/I be able to
get them? What would we do with the "French" files...archive or delete
them?

Gee whiz..sounds all very bilingual, but thanks in advance anyways.

Surrey, BC
"A very English part of Canada"

Hi Richard,

You would do better to ask this in one of the MS Office newsgroups.

--
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Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
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"Richard Roseweir" wrote
Am inquiring on behalf of a French and English speaking acquaintance
from my work.

His family runs Windows 98SE and Office '97 Professional Edition on an
older family computer. Both the OS and the Office'97 were originally in
English. A French speaking relative, previously living with the family,
has "apparently" altered Office'97 such that all the Office programs
appear and run in French. The Title Bar, menu bar, status bar, dialogue
boxes, Help menu, popups, Spell-check, etc, etc are now all in French.

The links to Office '97 in the Windows 98SE start menu are still in
English.

The relative is now gone, the aging parents don't give a hoot and the
son (my acquaintance) wants to get Office'97 back into English on the
family computer. He has a laptop at work running Windows XP (configured
like Windows 98SE) running Office 2000, both in English. He wants to
be able to use BOTH versions of Office, on both computers, in English
for his work stuff.

I understand that all it might take to accomplish this is to manually
replace a "language" file (or files) in a folder that relates to
Office'97. Would the original file(s) still be available on his
hard-drive? If not, which are they...and where would he/I be able to
get them? What would we do with the "French" files...archive or delete
them?

Gee whiz..sounds all very bilingual, but thanks in advance anyways.

Surrey, BC
"A very English part of Canada"

See if this helps at least for MSWord:
Unable to Change Default Language for New Documents
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=ofw97

Or
Put the Office97 CD in the drive and run Setup. You should get a choice to
install/remove components to select. Once Setup is running anything you place a check
next to will be installed if it isn't already and anything that you uncheck will be
removed. IIRC, on the right side of setup there will be an additional area to select
more options for the components selected on the left.

Or
Ask this in an Office NG where you would get the best help.

--
Brian A.

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"Richard Roseweir" wrote in message
...
Am inquiring on behalf of a French and English speaking acquaintance
from my work.

His family runs Windows 98SE and Office '97 Professional Edition on an
older family computer. Both the OS and the Office'97 were originally in
English. A French speaking relative, previously living with the family,
has "apparently" altered Office'97 such that all the Office programs
appear and run in French. The Title Bar, menu bar, status bar, dialogue
boxes, Help menu, popups, Spell-check, etc, etc are now all in French.

The links to Office '97 in the Windows 98SE start menu are still in
English.

The relative is now gone, the aging parents don't give a hoot and the
son (my acquaintance) wants to get Office'97 back into English on the
family computer. He has a laptop at work running Windows XP (configured
like Windows 98SE) running Office 2000, both in English. He wants to
be able to use BOTH versions of Office, on both computers, in English
for his work stuff.

I understand that all it might take to accomplish this is to manually
replace a "language" file (or files) in a folder that relates to
Office'97. Would the original file(s) still be available on his
hard-drive? If not, which are they...and where would he/I be able to
get them? What would we do with the "French" files...archive or delete
them?

Gee whiz..sounds all very bilingual, but thanks in advance anyways.

Surrey, BC
"A very English part of Canada"

Richard Roseweir wrote in message ...
Am inquiring on behalf of a French and English speaking acquaintance
from my work.

His family runs Windows 98SE and Office '97 Professional Edition on an
older family computer. Both the OS and the Office'97 were originally in
English. A French speaking relative, previously living with the family,
has "apparently" altered Office'97 such that all the Office programs
appear and run in French. The Title Bar, menu bar, status bar, dialogue
boxes, Help menu, popups, Spell-check, etc, etc are now all in French.

The links to Office '97 in the Windows 98SE start menu are still in
English.

The relative is now gone, the aging parents don't give a hoot and the
son (my acquaintance) wants to get Office'97 back into English on the
family computer. He has a laptop at work running Windows XP (configured
like Windows 98SE) running Office 2000, both in English. He wants to
be able to use BOTH versions of Office, on both computers, in English
for his work stuff.

I understand that all it might take to accomplish this is to manually
replace a "language" file (or files) in a folder that relates to
Office'97. Would the original file(s) still be available on his
hard-drive? If not, which are they...and where would he/I be able to
get them? What would we do with the "French" files...archive or delete
them?

Gee whiz..sounds all very bilingual, but thanks in advance anyways.

Surrey, BC
"A very English part of Canada"

Start Microsoft Word.

Click on Tools, hover on Language and choose "Set Language"
from the cascading menu.

Then take your pick..........