Differences between MultiLanguage Pack and non-English Office 2000 (240421)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack

This article was previously published under Q240421

SUMMARY

This article compares some of the features of Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack with features of non-English versions of Office 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

See the table below for more information.
  Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack (LPK)   Non-English Office 2000
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  Worldwide Executable                        Worldwide Executable 

  Language AutoDetect                         Language AutoDetect   

  All Proofing Tools                          Some Proofing Tools

  Single Version:                             Multiple Versions:   
  The MultiLanguage Pack Kit (LPK) is         There are many language-
  available only for the English              specific versions of Office
  version of Office 2000.                     2000, such as French, German, 
                                              and Japanese Office 2000.

  Single Installation:                        Multiple Installations:   
  With the use of the LPK,                    Multiple installations of 
  it is possible to install                   Office to the same partition 
  many languages within a single              to have multiple languages
  Setup.                                      is not supported. The
                                              supported method is to 
                                              install English Office, and
                                              then install additional
                                              languages with the Multi-
                                              Language User Interface.

  Single Service Pack Installation            Multiple Service Pack
                                              Installations

  Some components cannot switch User          Non-English components
  Interface/Help; for example,                 
  PhotoDraw and Publisher.
  

  Centralized support:                        De-centralized support:
  Many of the features in the LPK             Non-English Office versions
  share common technologies, such as          ship with files that
  the Office Language Settings tool.          may or may not work with 
                                              other language-specific
                                              technologies, such as
                                              Click and Type.

  Tracking Components:                        Tracking Components:
  The fonts and templates that                With non-English versions,
  corporations need are                       there might be extra fonts,
  included and are easy                       templates, and so on
  to track.                                   that may be harder to track
                                              for a multinational company.

  Roaming User Scenario                       Roaming User Scenario:
  with Windows 2000:                          Cannot use roaming users
  Roaming user profiles work                  across Windows 9x/Windows
  best with MultiLanguage version             NT 4.0 or mixed-language 
  of Windows 2000 due to                      versions.
  technology features.

				

REFERENCES

For additional information about international features of Office 2000, please see the following Microsoft Web sites:

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:5/11/2005
Keywords:kbinfo kbIntlDev KB240421