Microsoft Office in Japanese not English

[blueknight1979]

Ok we bought a nice little laptop on ebay its loaded with office legit copies of XP as well. I thought it was strange to find windows media play 10 in Japanese so I deleted it and moved on. Well its more complicated than that. EVERYTHING is in Japanese even the help files. If you start typing it turns it into Japanese. How can I change the default office language to English. I found where to change the document language just not where to change the default for the program. HELP wife is going nuts.

[heatlesssun]

It's not that simple. Sounds like you have the Japanese version of X{. You're going to need the English version of XP.

[blueknight1979]

yes I can understand that but the wording in XP is in english, the app itself is until you open the help files or a document. matter fact everything else is in english but the office apps

[GushpinBob]

I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turining Japanese
I really think so duhnuh nuhnuhnuhnuhnuh...

^ Sorry couldn't help it. :D


Sillyness aside, were you able to contact the seller of this laptop and inform him/her about the software on the laptop? As a matter of fact, from where did it ship?

I would imagine that you'll have to find English copies of the same software. I can't remember if Microsoft provided multi-language options or not. :(

[heatlesssun]

What version of Office?

[blueknight1979]

Office Xp

[heatlesssun]

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/orkXP/HA011363951033.aspx

[blueknight1979]

that solved it . wow I spent like an hour on microsoft looking for help with it. Just curious what did you use for a search?