Dutch spelling on an English Office 2007 Professional suite   

Hello all,

I am looking for help on how to find, buy and install a Dutch language 
proofing tool or multilanguage proofing tool including Dutch on a newly 
installed English Office 2007 Professional Suite (OEM). The colleague using 
the English Office suite is also working with an Azerty keyboard - not sure 
if this complicates the matter or not.
The new colleague in question needs to be able to write and check his 
spelling in Dutch and English, and is currently experiencing some frustration 
as there is only limited support for Dutch in the spell checker. As our 
organisation (located in Belgium) is small and not-for-profit, and this is 
the first of our colleagues to have the Office 2007 suite installed on new 
hardware, because the rest of us will have to wait until next year for 
budgetary reasons, I should appreciate a pointer which will not cost us the 
earth this year.

If anyone has experienced a similar problem, and has managed to find a way 
of obtaining the Dutch proofing for Office 2007 - I'd really appreciate their 
sharing their experiences with me. 

Many thanks in advance,

date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:16:02 -0800   author:   Kedi2

RE: Dutch spelling on an English Office 2007 Professional suite   

Hi Kedi2,

Since you have an English version of Office, you will need to buy the 
Dutch proofing tools as part of the Dutch Language Pack for Office 2007. 

Single Language Packs for Office 2007, which include the proofing tools for 
one given language (spell-checker, thesaurus, grammar checker, etc.) are 
available from a number of online stores worldwide. Check this out:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX102113661033.aspx 

You can click on the link “Buy a single language pack now”. You then just 
have to pick your country from the drop-down list and you will be directed to 
the most appropriate store, as a function of your location. Some of the 
stores are localized for the market or the region. You can then select the 
language you are interested in (Dutch as far as you are concerned) and 
click the “Buy Now” button. 

If you want to know more about Language Packs for the 2007 Microsoft Office 
system, check out the Frequently Asked Questions on the Office site: 
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA102113701033.aspx 

Customers can only purchase products in the online store for their region 
(accessible from the localized Office Online sites). Otherwise, credit card 
validation will fail. So if you are from outside the USA, customers should 
not try to purchase these Single Language Packs from a US site. For Western 
Europe, for instance, the purchase site can be directly accessed via 
http://buy.trymicrosoftoffice.com/buyemea1. This is the site you should use 
since you are located in Belgium. 


I hope this will help you,

Best wishes,

Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]
Microsoft Natural Language Group


"Kedi2" wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am looking for help on how to find, buy and install a Dutch language 
> proofing tool or multilanguage proofing tool including Dutch on a newly 
> installed English Office 2007 Professional Suite (OEM). The colleague using 
> the English Office suite is also working with an Azerty keyboard - not sure 
> if this complicates the matter or not.
> The new colleague in question needs to be able to write and check his 
> spelling in Dutch and English, and is currently experiencing some frustration 
> as there is only limited support for Dutch in the spell checker. As our 
> organisation (located in Belgium) is small and not-for-profit, and this is 
> the first of our colleagues to have the Office 2007 suite installed on new 
> hardware, because the rest of us will have to wait until next year for 
> budgetary reasons, I should appreciate a pointer which will not cost us the 
> earth this year.
> 
> If anyone has experienced a similar problem, and has managed to find a way 
> of obtaining the Dutch proofing for Office 2007 - I'd really appreciate their 
> sharing their experiences with me. 
> 
> Many thanks in advance,

date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:17:00 -0800   author:   Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]