Q & A How to: Find my Language Preferences? The question that we shall share with you today has to do with Office 2010 Language Preferences --- The Professor will be publishing a series about Language Preferences soon...

The Martian presents: How do we make Office? Ensuring the UI looks great in all languages Greetings Earthlings! It’s me “-----“, continuing my mission to bring you up to galaxial speed on the wizbang concepts of Office. Let’s blast off… ...

A Lesson by The Professor Um-al-Qura Calendar Support in Office 2010 Welcome back to class! My fellow students, our lesson today is about the support of Um-al-Qura calendar in Office 2010. The Um-al-Qura calendar is a variation of the Hijri...

Q & A How do I check spelling and grammar in a different language in Office 2007? The question that we shall share with you today have to do with using your spelling and grammar checkers. Microsoft Office Online has a very handy course...

The Martian presents Creating a Custom Service for Office 2010 Mini Translator Hello Earthlings, Today, I bring you information about how to extend the functionality of Office 2010 Mini Translator. My helpful friends in the Office Global Experience...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard 5 Access Settings for the Right-to-Left Languages Hello My Apprentice, Welcome back! As you might know already, Access is a popular database software application. It has rich support for international features such...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard Global features in Windows SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hello My Apprentice, I am very pleased to see you back here for MORE tips and tricks of the Office global features. This time I shall share the magic of the Windows...

A Lesson by The Professor Using the Speak Feature in Office 2010 Hello Students, Our lesson today is about using an exciting new feature in Office 2010 called Speak! In a previous lesson we discussed Using the New Mini Translator in Office...

The Martian presents, Bidirectional text embedding and override Howdy Earthlings! “-----“ here again! *sigh* Yeah, some of you Earth people still confuse me with being Martian. For the record AGAIN, I come from the planet “-----“ (sorry...

Dear Scenari, Using Mini Translator when I don’t need translation Dear Scenari, I’ve seen the new Mini Translator feature in Office 2010 – and it looks really cool! However – I only speak one language, and while I’d like to learn...

The Martian presents What happens when the same font is used to display multi-language text? Greetings Earthlings! My name is “-----“ and I come from the planet “-----“ (sorry, our names just don’t translate to English or any other earthly...

Q & A How to turn on/off Mini Translator in Office 2010 -- Ok Miss Smarty Bulb, I answered your question last time; I bet you can’t answer this question:-- Question : How do I turn on / off the Mini Translator feature...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard 5 More Useful Outlook Global Features Ah! My apprentice, you have done well as you return for MORE tips and tricks regarding additional Outlook global features. I’m pleased, as I’m sure you must have mastered...

Learn more about Office Global Experience Platform Hey Everybody!! We’re really excited to tell you some great news! Yea! We’re famous! There’s a movie about us at www.office2010themovie.com ! Now dear, the movie is not about us , but about...

Q & A How to Enable Online Services for Translation -- Hi there! We’re twins and we two do EVERYTHING together! -- -- But we’re told we definitely have different personalities. For example,...

Dear Scenari, Changing Numeral Shapes in Excel (even if you don’t know the language) Dear Scenari, I have an Excel file that contains some numeral shapes which I can’t really read or don’t even know which language the numbers belong...

A Lesson by The Professor Changing the Translation Service / Adding a New Service Hello Students, Our lesson today is about using the translation services available in Office. I actually have TWO lessons for you today, as you will learn how to...

Dear Scenari, Using the Date / Time Format in PowerPoint for Different Cultures Dear Scenari, I work for a multi-national corporation which has offices around the world. Often, I represent my company and travel around the world to meet...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard 5 Useful Outlook Global Features Hello, I’m glad you’ve returned and I look forward to sharing with you 5 useful features in Outlook that may be of particular interest to global customers. And if you live on this...

A Lesson by The Profes sor The Microsoft Office 2010 ‘ScreenTip Language’ Feature Hello class, good to see you again. Today I would like to talk to you about a new feature in Microsoft Office 2010 called ScreenTip Language . The...

Dear Scenari, How to: Type in my language using Office 2010 Hello Dears, I am Scenari - the advice columnist for the Office Global Experience team and I have been using computers for a very long time. (Now don’t even think of asking me...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard Translate a Full Document using Office 2010 and Microsoft Translator Hello, I wish to introduce myself – I am The Wizard. I have much knowledge that I have accumulated through the years. I’ve heard tales of...

A Lesson by The Professor Using the New Mini Translator in Office 2010 Hello, Allow me to introduce myself. I have traveled far and taught at many universities. I have seen how people everywhere around the world use computers to reach their full...

Thank you for your interest in the Global Experience Platform (GXP)’s team blog! This blog entry marks our first post and introduces new Microsoft® Office 2010 multilingual features. The GXP team has focused this release on optimizing some situations...