I need to install the multi language user pack that is suppose to change the use menus to English.
I need to use the Chinese version because my wife does some special formatting in Chinese.
If you can point me to where I may find this pack, or the option on my installation cd, I think I can take it from there. I can recognize basic chinese.
Thanks.
OS: Windows 2k Engish set Chinese traditional local.
Program: Office 2003 standard edition, Chinese
I have the same problem. I think someone told me to download it off of Emule, but what I found didn’t work. Ihad one of the stores in NOVA call Microsoft’s distributor and they double checked with Microsoft before telling me that it’s not sold in Taiwan.
Why not just install both versions?
Also, I don’t think there’s anything you can do on Chinese Office/Windows, that you can’t do on the English versions. My wife has no problems using the Chinese.
Brian
To the best of my knowledge, you need to install the Chinese Office 2003 MUI on top of the English Office 2003 base installation. It will not work if you install it on top of Chinese office. It is possible that I’m wrong about this, as I understand that all the language interfaces are based on the MUI packs, but if there is an English MUI I’ve never seen it.
So, if you want English and Chinese office at the same time, uninstall Chinese Office, Install English Office, then install the Traditional Chinese MUI (MUI CD3).
And to clear up some misconceptions:
Installing English and Chinese Office separately on the hard drive may be dangerous, it will certainly be annoying as whatever you install last will be the default for .doc files and the like. I don’t think your coworkers would like that.
There are several things you can do with Chinese Office that you can’t do in English Office - the most obvious is right to left vertical formatting, but there are other more subtle issues (phrase identification). All of these features work perfectly with the MUI. The MUI packs are only sold to corporate volume customers - mostly multinational companies with global offices. They are however, available through the usual channels.
You can do that on English Office. Is there really anything you can do on Chiense Office you can’t do ont he English. I just thought it was the same, but with Chiense language menus.
Brian
It works on mine, we’ve discussed this before in another thread no? Pm me for consultation. I still have the cd.
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Perhaps not relavant in the present case, but the soon-to-be-released version for the Mac, M$ Office 2004, will include full Unicode support! Very much looking forward to that…
Why not use a free office package available in a number of languages on a number of platforms? You can also install two or three different language versions on the same computer, if you like…
Or does here really someone use a “feature” that would only be available in MSO? 
Are you sure about this?
My boss’s computer has Traditional Chinese Windows and Microsoft Office. She wanted to get a word processor with English menus to make it easier for others to use. We installed the free, open-source word processor Abiword, choosing English as the installation language. We tried this several times, but it always installed with Traditional Chinese menus. I don’t know whether Open Office behaves differently.
We are running a number of computers (Windows 98/XP zh-TW) with OpenOffice in both English and Chinese. Of course, only one (the one that was installed as last) of the two (or more…) versions will be able to open OO files on doubleclick. You should also NOT let it be responsible for Word/Excel/Powerpoint/HTML files (it still can open and save them though, just doesn’t pop up when you doubleclick such a file) when asked for during installation. You should also read the installation notes before installation, if you want to install for multiple accounts on a computer.
Since I started using Staroffice 3.1 (up to SO5.2, later OO) more than ten years ago I haven’t been using MS Office - only if forced. (Because someone only knew MSO, thought there only could be MSO, so everyone had to use MSO…) The handling is much more convenient…
Our school will switch completely (Well, almost… The MoE still sends Word files with VBA or strange formatting, so we have to keep a few copies of MSO.) next semester, so we are doing training courses now. There I noticed that people who really know how to do text processing (so far only one teacher, but some others at least understand a few basics…) will happily switch to OO, because it is more convenient. Others however, who only memorized when to click on which icon, are secretly cursing it because they have to memorize (still sticking to old habits) once again… 
I never tried Abiword myself, I only read that it should be fine for home use. OpenOffice is probably about one or two sizes “larger” and more complex.
[quote=“dl7und”]We are running a number of computers (Windows 98/XP zh-TW) with OpenOffice in both English and Chinese…
I never tried Abiword myself, I only read that it should be fine for home use. OpenOffice is probably about one or two sizes “larger” and more complex.[/quote]
Thanks for the info. It seems that I should first post the problem on the Abiword forums, then if no luck I’ll try OO.
Just to check – with OO can you have different language versions running under the same user account, or does it have to be different users?
Abiword is very similar to Microsoft Word – the menu items are in the same places and the icons are similar. It can also save and read a lot of different formats including the Microsoft ones.
Yes. We have computer classrooms with OO in English and Chinese installed on Win98 machines. You should change the directory name on installation (to something like OO11E or whatever you like), because the second (and following versions) might complain if the default directory is already occupied.