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Summary: Learn about the language packs and language interface packs that are available for Office.
An installation of Office 2016 can include applications or user interface elements in more than one language because some Office 2016 products are not available in every language.
Microsoft Office 2016. Microsoft Office 2016 is the new version of the Microsoft Office suite. It enhances and unifies visual changes from the 2013 version, adding new online features through Office 365, and also adds new features. Office 2016 Language Packs (or Language Accessory Packs), are additional packages that offered from Microsoft in order to change the display language for the ribbon menu and commands in Office 2016 applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), to a language of your choice and to use the spell checker, grammar check and thesaurus (proofing tools) on that language. Introduced in Office 2016. Application.InsertTimelineBar method (Project) Adds a timeline bar to the view. Application.Inspector method (Project) Indicates the Task Inspector for use with engagement data. Application.LocaleName method (Project) Language name that is used by Project, such as en-us or za-ch. Office Suite 2020 Microsoft Word 2019 2016 2013 2010 2007 365 Compatible Software CD Powered by Apache OpenOfficeTM for PC Windows 10 8.1 8 7 Vista XP 32 64 Bit & Mac OS X - No Yearly Subscription! By PixelClassics.
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This article describes the language versions that are available for a subset of Office 2016 applications, the Office 2016 applications that will work with Language Interface Packs, and the recommended base languages to install for Office 2016 Language Interface Packs.
Important
This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for versions of Office 2016 that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology, which are available for enterprises through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you're deploying Microsoft 365 Apps, which uses the Click-to-Run installation technology, see Overview of deploying languages for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Applications and language availability
In some non-English language versions of Office 2016, a specific Office 2016 application may not be available. For example, Access 2016 is not available in Hindi. Therefore, the Hindi language version of Office 2016 is installed in English.
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Some Office applications are not available in some languages. Project 2016 and Visio 2016 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table. Free pdf editor download mac.
Language availability for the 2016 versions of Project and Visio
| Language | Project 2016 | Visio 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | yes | yes |
| Brazilian | yes | yes |
| Bulgarian | no | no |
| Chinese - Simple | yes | yes |
| Chinese - Traditional | yes | yes |
| Croatian | no | no |
| Czech | yes | yes |
| Danish | yes | yes |
| Dutch | yes | yes |
| English | yes | yes |
| Finnish | yes | yes |
| French | yes | yes |
| German | yes | yes |
| Greek | yes | yes |
| Hebrew | yes | yes |
| Hindi | no | no |
| Hungarian | yes | yes |
| Italian | yes | yes |
| Japanese | yes | yes |
| Korean | yes | yes |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | yes | yes |
| Polish | yes | yes |
| Portuguese (European) | yes | yes |
| Romanian | no | no |
| Russian | yes | yes |
| Serbian (Latin) | no | no |
| Slovak | yes | yes |
| Slovenian | yes | yes |
| Spanish | yes | yes |
| Swedish | yes | yes |
| Thai | no | no |
| Turkish | yes | yes |
| Ukrainian | yes | yes |
Language Interface Packs
For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some Office 2016 applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs (LIPs). These LIPs localize the user interface only, and not the Help content. Administrators must first install a fully localized base language version (see the table later in this section) of Office 2016, and then install the LIP. Users can then work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:
Excel 2016
OneNote 2016
Outlook 2016
PowerPoint 2016
Shared Office features
Word 2016
Skype for Business 2016, but only for the following languages:
Albanian: sq-SQ
Azerbaijani (Latin): az-Latn-AZ
Basque: eu-ES
Belarusian: be-BE
Catalan: ca-ES
Farsi (Persian): fa-IR
Filipino: fil-PH
Galician: gl-ES
Macedonian: mk-MK
Serbian (Cyrillic): sr-Cyrl-RS Smpte timecode software.
Uzbek (Latin): uz-Latn-UZ
Important
This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for versions of Office 2016 that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology, which are available for enterprises through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you're deploying Microsoft 365 Apps, which uses the Click-to-Run installation technology, see Overview of deploying languages for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Applications and language availability
In some non-English language versions of Office 2016, a specific Office 2016 application may not be available. For example, Access 2016 is not available in Hindi. Therefore, the Hindi language version of Office 2016 is installed in English.
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Some Office applications are not available in some languages. Project 2016 and Visio 2016 are available in a subset of languages, as shown in the following table. Free pdf editor download mac.
Language availability for the 2016 versions of Project and Visio
| Language | Project 2016 | Visio 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | yes | yes |
| Brazilian | yes | yes |
| Bulgarian | no | no |
| Chinese - Simple | yes | yes |
| Chinese - Traditional | yes | yes |
| Croatian | no | no |
| Czech | yes | yes |
| Danish | yes | yes |
| Dutch | yes | yes |
| English | yes | yes |
| Finnish | yes | yes |
| French | yes | yes |
| German | yes | yes |
| Greek | yes | yes |
| Hebrew | yes | yes |
| Hindi | no | no |
| Hungarian | yes | yes |
| Italian | yes | yes |
| Japanese | yes | yes |
| Korean | yes | yes |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | yes | yes |
| Polish | yes | yes |
| Portuguese (European) | yes | yes |
| Romanian | no | no |
| Russian | yes | yes |
| Serbian (Latin) | no | no |
| Slovak | yes | yes |
| Slovenian | yes | yes |
| Spanish | yes | yes |
| Swedish | yes | yes |
| Thai | no | no |
| Turkish | yes | yes |
| Ukrainian | yes | yes |
Language Interface Packs
For some languages, Microsoft localizes only some Office 2016 applications and releases them as Language Interface Packs (LIPs). These LIPs localize the user interface only, and not the Help content. Administrators must first install a fully localized base language version (see the table later in this section) of Office 2016, and then install the LIP. Users can then work in their preferred language in the following applications and features:
Excel 2016
OneNote 2016
Outlook 2016
PowerPoint 2016
Shared Office features
Word 2016
Skype for Business 2016, but only for the following languages:
Albanian: sq-SQ
Azerbaijani (Latin): az-Latn-AZ
Basque: eu-ES
Belarusian: be-BE
Catalan: ca-ES
Farsi (Persian): fa-IR
Filipino: fil-PH
Galician: gl-ES
Macedonian: mk-MK
Serbian (Cyrillic): sr-Cyrl-RS Smpte timecode software.
Uzbek (Latin): uz-Latn-UZ
The remaining Office applications appear in the base Office 2016 installation language. The following table lists the base language for each LIP language.
Base languages available for Language Interface Packs
| LIP language | Base language |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | English |
| Albanian | English |
| Amharic | English |
| Armenian | English |
| Assamese | English |
| Azerbaijani - Latin script | English |
| Bangla (Bangladesh) | English |
| Basque (Basque) | Spanish |
| Belarusian | Russian |
| Bengali - India | English or Hindi |
| Bosnian - Latin script | English |
| Catalan | Spanish |
| Dari | English |
| Filipino | English |
| Galician | Spanish |
| Georgian | English |
| Gujarati | English |
| Icelandic | English |
| Irish - Gaelic | English |
| Kannada | English |
| Khmer | English |
| Kiswahili | English |
| Konkani | English |
| Krygyz | Russian |
| Luxembourgish | French |
| Macedonian (FYROM) | English |
| Malayalam | English |
| Maltese | English |
| Maori | English |
| Marathi | English |
| Mongolian - Cyrillic script | English |
| Nepali | English |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | Norwegian (Bokmål) |
| Odia | English |
| Persian (Farsi) | English |
| Punjabi (India) | English |
| Quechua (Peru) | Spanish |
| Scottish Gaelic | English |
| Serbian - Cyrillic script | Serbian (Latin) |
| Serbian - Cyrillic script (Bosnia and Herzegovina) | English |
| Sindhi (Pakistan) | English |
| Sinhala | English |
| Tamil (India) | English |
| Tatar | Russian |
| Telugu | English |
| Turkmen | Russian |
| Urdu | English |
| Uyghur | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Uzbek - Latin script | English or Russian |
| Valencian | Spanish |
| Welsh | English |
For information about how to obtain the LIP you need for your deployment, see Download language packs, language interface packs, and proofing tools for volume license versions of Office.
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