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Language setting Office for Mac 2016 I used the preview of Office 2016 for Mac for a short period, but one thing is stopping me from purchasing the license: I cannot find a setting to select the Menu language to English, independent from the OS default language, like it is possible for Office for Windows. It is insane how hard it is to get a simple answer to a simple, yet infuriating question. So in the interest of possibly shortening someones elses time in frustration a little bit I found out: Somehow my dates started showing up in strange formats. 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. Some Office applications are not available in some languages.

Language identifiers Office 2016 is available in many languages. In an international setting, you can deploy multiple language versions of Office 2016 in a single installation process. Setup combines a language-neutral core product with one or more language-specific packages to create a complete product. On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Language & Region. Open Language & Region preferences for me. Do one of the following: Choose a language for an app: Click the Add button, choose an app and a language from the pop-up menus, then click Add. Change the language for an app in the list: Select the app, then choose a new language from the pop-up menu.

Summary: Find language identifier and OptionState ID values for identifying and customizing Office 2016 language and proofing tools installations.

Use the values in the Language Identifier and OptionState ID tables to configure setup for Office 2016 or for Office proofing tools, or to identify currently installed languages.

This is a reference article. The values provided in the tables are necessary for completing procedures that are described in the following articles:

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.

Language identifiers

Office 2016 is available in many languages. In an international setting, you can deploy multiple language versions of Office 2016 in a single installation process. Setup combines a language-neutral core product with one or more language-specific packages to create a complete product.

On the source media, language-specific packages are organized into separate folders. Each folder name has a language tag appended to it, in the form ll-cc. That tag identifies the language and culture. For example, U.S. English language folders are identified by the folder name extension en-us. The language tags help you determine the folders that you have to copy to the network installation point.

The language folders that are included in a fully localized version of an Office 2016 product are the same as the language folders that are included in the Microsoft Office 2016 Language Pack for a specific language. For example, the same Outlook.ar-sa folder is used in the Arabic language version of Office 2016, the Arabic language version of Outlook 2016, and the Office 2016 Language Pack - Arabic.

Note

Language tags are also referred to and used as 'language IDs' for some procedures.

Office 2016 offers localized versions in all the languages that are listed in the following table. Folders for the language-specific components are identified by the language tag that is shown in the table. The Windows operating system uses locale identifiers (LCIDs) to identify languages in the Windows registry.

In addition to the fully localized languages listed here, Office 2016 provides Language Interface Packs (LIPs), which contain a subset of language-specific components and are designed to be installed together with a logical parent language. Elements that are not localized in the LIP language appear in the parent language. For more information about LIPs, see Language Interface Packs.

Language tags (language IDs), and LCIDs available in Office 2016

¹ Language tag is sometimes referred to as the language ID.

Proofing Tools Config.xml OptionState Id values

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The following table provides the OptionState ID values for the Office proofing tools. It is ordered alphabetically by language. Use these values to modify the Config.xml file in the ProofKit.WW folder when you customize the setup of the Office proofing tools. For more information about proofing tools, see Plan for Office proofing tools. For instructions on how to customize proofing tools, see Customize and install the Office proofing tools.

OptionState IDs for each Proofing Tools language in Office 2016

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