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.
In this article you will find the direct download links to download the available Language Accessory Packs for Office 2016 and instructions on how to configure the Office Language.
Notes:
1. If you are using a Volume License version of Microsoft Office 2016, you can download an ISO image of the language packs, language interface packs, and proofing tools from the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC).
2. If you want to download only the Proofing Tools for a specific language, navigate to this link: Download Office 2016 Proofing Tools.
3. If you are using Office 2013, 2010 or earlier version, then navigate to this link to find the available language packs for this version.
I had a recent update to my Office suite and now the language pack 'English (Canada)' is no longer available. It seems that the language proof pack available is English-us. I have it downloaded and ready to install but, as a Canadian, i'll be constantly respelling all the words spelt differently in Canada than the United States. We are providing the direct download links of all the available Office 2016 language packs. Not all the language packs may include all the features that are discussed above. Some languages may have restrictions like they may not include a spell checker etc. But most of the language packs come with full feature set.
You can download the Office 2016 Language Packs for FREE directly from Microsoft's servers, by navigating to this link:
– Alternatively – for your convenience- you can find the direct download links for all available Office 2016 Language Packs below.
1. After you have downloaded your preferred language pack, double click at the .exe file and follow the on screen instructions to install it.
2. After installation, open any Office program (e.g. Word 2016) and from the File menu select Options.
3. At the left side, choose Language.
4. At Language Preferences window you can:
A. Change the default editing language, by choosing your preferred language and pressing the 'Set as Default' button.
B. Change the default display language for the ribbon menus and commands. (The default option is the System Language).
C. Change the default Help language.
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