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...

Tips and Tricks by The Wizard Quick Access to Mini-Translator (or other features) 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 how...

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...

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 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...

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...

Continuing from the " East Asian Text Layout Features " article, in this article we will explore text formatting features that are specific to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (collectively referred to as "East Asian languages" in this article). Business...

Hello, this is Vyom Munshi from the Global Experience Platform team. This blog is the second part of the series of articles on Find and Replace feature. As you work with Office files, you may want to use the Find and Replace feature. If you have Arabic...

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...

Hello, this is Gwyneth Marshall again and this is the second part of a four-part series or articles on East Asian text features. Continuing from the East Asian Text Layout Features article, we will explore text formatting features specific to Chinese...

Hello, my name is Vyom Munshi, and I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in the GXP team. This blog is the first part of the series of articles on Find and Replace feature. As you work with Office files, you may want to use the Find and Replace feature...

Hello, my name is Sirirat Reinikka, and I am a Tester on the GXP team. My previous blog articles include Changing Numeral Shapes in Excel and 5 Access Settings for the Right-to-Left Languages . With the help from my teammate, Wirote Petchdenlarp, we will...

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...

Hey!! My name is Vinay Reddy and I am a Software Design Engineer in Test in the GXP team. I have put together a few tips below you could use to connect better with an international audience. Though this blog has been written keeping PowerPoint in mind...

Hello, my name is Jesus Barrera-Ramos and I'm the Senior Program Manager Lead for Multilingual Solutions in the Office Global Experience Platform (GXP) team. Distributed collaboration is crucial in the fast and connected world of today. Companies bring...

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 Readers, We are about to close our February survey this Saturday. We really would love to hear your thoughts about our Office Global Experience Team Blog. This is your chance to tell us what you like or dislike about our blogs and what topics...

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...

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… ...

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...

Q&A What's the difference between UI 'Flipping' and UI 'Mirroring'? -- Wow, it seems like forever since we've had a posting out here. -- Yeah, well if you weren't so distracted with other things – it would...

Dear Readers, We have now been writing this blog for six months and we would appreciate hearing your feedback! Please fill out this short survey (5 questions) and let us know what you think about the Office Global Experience Team Blog. Thank...

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...

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...