An Overview of Multilanguage Support in Word, Office, and Windows

If your work requires you to edit in multiple languages, or to share your documents with others located outside the United States and English-speaking Canada, you will appreciate the major improvements in multilanguage support that Microsoft has introduced with Word 2000 and Office 2000. Working in tandem with international support features built into current versions of Windows, you can do all of the following:

• Enter text in foreign languages, including special characters such as ã and ç; characters from languages that use other alphabets, such as the Cyrillic alphabet; and characters from ideographic languages such as Chinese

• Use Word's new Auto-Language Detect feature to automatically detect which language you are writing in, and apply relevant formats and styles accordingly

• Proofread in French and Spanish without purchasing any additional proofing tools; and proofread in 37 other languages by purchasing a single Microsoft add-on product

• Display the Word and Office user interfaces and access Help in languages other than English