A lot of people ask me what the difference between an Office Language Interface Pack and an Office Language Pack?

Well this table below is a simple way to differentiate between them.

I hope you can gauge the difference between the two from the table. If you cannot please leave a comment for me in the comments section below.

For the Microsoft marketing product overview on the Office 2010 Language Packs please visit this Office Online page.

You can also find out exactly what an Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) is by visiting my July blog .

 

Question/Product

Office 2010 Language Pack

Office 2010 Language Interface Pack (LIP)

Translated Office User Interface included in the package for the following Application?

Access,Excel,Groove,Infopath,

OneNote,Outlook,Powerpoint,

Project,Publisher,Sharepoint

Designer,Visio & Word

Excel, Onenote, Outlook,Powerpoint &

Word

Translated Office User Assistance (Help) included in the package?

Yes

No

Proofing Tools included in the package?

In most cases a speller, grammar checker, thesaurus, hyphenator,autocorrrect & translation dictionaries are included in the package

In most cases only a speller is included in the package

Cost?

~$25/£25

Free

Available from?

Here

Here

Languages Offered?

Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese Hong Kong, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuania, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azeri (Latin), Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Catalan, Filipino, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Hausa (Latin), Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Inuktitut (Latin), Irish, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Kannada, Khmer, Kiswahili, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Lao, Luxembourgish, Macedonian (FYROM), Malay (Brunei Darussalam), Malay (Malaysia), Malayalam, Maori, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Oriya, Persian (Farsi), Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Quechua, Serbian Cyrillic, Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, Sinhala, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Urdu, Uzbek (Latin), Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruba