Word Support For Mac

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Applies to Office 2004 and Office 2008

Microsoft lists supported languages in Word Help for Office 2008 (topic: 'About proofing tools', online help must be active) and Office 2004 (topic: 'About Microsoft proofing tools'). All versions of Office should come with the same assortment of languages, whether retail standard, retail home and student, or a volume license. Note: Office does not support right-to-left languages. In addition, you cannot change the user interface (UI) language of menus, etc, in Office.

If the language you need is listed as supported, see Check Spelling in a Different Language for instructions on installing and using the proofing tools.

Office 2008 Languages (external link to Word Online Help) [Lene Fredborg, 11-Feb-2018: Removed outdated link to http://www.microsoft.com/Mac/help.mspx?clr=99-4-0&srcid=987fc20a-b6bd-49db-8ba1-6a263a924b411033&ep=9&target=6474a4a6-9d3e-4bde-a255-fb9286ef5d101033&CTT=RelatedLink&usid=1947081e-0474-4df5-9aab-daca1f30c55f
Office 2004 Languages (unofficial list below)

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Note that 'Dictionary' is used in Office 2004 as a generic term for a proofing file. Spelling is the most basic form of proofing, so the languages listed here can all be spellchecked. Grammar checking is very limited—you will only see grammar files for a few languages. MacOffice will only offer actual definitions for English; if you want definitions for any other language, you will need a third-party tool. Word 2004 includes proofing tools for more languages than Word X did, most notably Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.

My Language Isn't Supported! What Now?

One possible, partial, fix: if you can download a dictionary from Aspell (or elsewhere), you may be able to load it as a custom dictionary into Word. See Word Help on creating a custom dictionary and follow it exactly. Copy the words from the Aspell dictionary into a Word custom dictionary. In this case, you probably want to set the language for the custom dictionary. Then when you tag your text as, say, Polish, Word should use the Polish custom dictionary. This approach also works well for scientific/medical dictionaries, or other specialized lexicons.

NOTE: Reports on this would be appreciated, preferably on the newsgroup. Using custom dictionaries to support additional languages is currently untested—the main issue is that the custom dictionary may be too large for Word to handle. You can create multiple custom dictionaries with different names to address this issue. If you begin to see problems, quitting Word and trashing the custom dictionary should fix them.

Otherwise, you will need to go to third-party tools. If it isn't on the installation CD, MS doesn't offer it for the Mac. SpellCatcher X is a well-known program that will integrate with Word (offering many features beyond just proofing), but not the only one. CocoAspell can be used to extend the OS language capabilities, but that route would require you to do your spell-checking in TextEdit or another word processor that leans on the OS features.

Search the archives of the microsoft.public.mac.office.word [Lene Fredborg, 11-Feb-2018: Removed outdated link to http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.word] newsgroup to see what others have suggested for various languages. Also, look for webpages, newsgroups, listservs, or online forums specific to Mac users who speak the language you want—those people are likely to know the best workarounds and alternatives.

Be sure to let MS know that you want a language supported by using Help | Send Feedback in Word (or visit the feedback website [Lene Fredborg, 11-Feb-2018: Removed outdated link to http://www.microsoft.com/Mac/suggestions.mspx]). Offer all information that might let the MacBU understand what market is going to buy Word because it supports a particular language—such decisions are made on the basis of cost versus expected profit, so try to convince them supporting a language will earn them more money.

Unicode, Right-to-left, etc

Language support involves two dimensions—being able to type in a language, and being able to proof a language (that is, check spelling and grammar for it, like proofreading). This article concentrates on proofing. However, you should be aware that although Office is mostly Unicode-compliant so that you can type a great range of characters and diacritical marks, OFFICE DOES NOT SUPPORT RIGHT-TO-LEFT LANGUAGES such as Arabic, Hebrew, etc . Please search the archives of the microsoft.public.mac.office.word newsgroup for more information on entering characters and diacritical marks for various languages, and for alternatives that do support right-to-left languages. Mellel and Nisus Writer are the most frequently mentioned alternatives.

Proofing Tools Shipped with Office 2004

The information here is an unofficial list based on one person's experience doing a custom installation that included all available proofing tools. Minor variations on this list have been reported, but it seems to be substantially accurate.

These are the proofing files that were installed in Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools/.

Aus English Hyph Dictionary
Australian Spelling Dictionary
Bokmal Spelling
Brazilian Hyph Dictionary
Brazilian Hyphenation
Brazilian Spelling
Brazilian Spelling Dictionary
Brazilian Thesaurus
Brazilian Thesaurus Dictionary
Danish Dictionary
Danish Hyphenation
Danish Hyphenation Dictionary
Danish Spelling
Danish Thesaurus Dictionary
Danish Thesaurus3
Dutch Hyphenation Dictionary
Dutch Spelling Dictionary
Dutch Thesaurus Dictionary
English (US) Word Forms
English Grammar
English Grammar Dictionary
English Hyphenation
English Spelling
English Thesaurus
Finnish Dictionary
Finnish Hyphenation
Finnish Hyphenation Dictionary
Finnish Spelling
Finnish Thesaurus Dictionary
Finnish Thesaurus3
French Dictionary1
French Dictionary2
French Grammar
French Grammar Dictionary1
French Grammar Dictionary2
French Grammar Help
French Grammar Parameter
French Grammar Reference
French Hyphen Dictionary
French Hyphenation
French Spelling
French Thesaurus
French Thesaurus Dictionary
German Dictionary (post-reform)
German Dictionary (pre-reform)
German Grammar
German Grammar Dictionary
German Hyph Dict (post-reform)
German Hyph Dict (pre-reform)
German Hyphenation
German Spelling
German Thes Dict (post-reform)
German Thes Dict (pre-reform)
German Thesaurus
Italian Grammar
Italian Grammar Dict
Italian Hyphenation
Italian Hyphenation Dict
Italian Spelling Dict
Italian Spelling3
Italian Thesaurus
Italian Thesaurus Dict
Japanese Proofing
Japanese Proofing Dictionary
NL Hyphenation Carbon
NL Spelling Carbon
NL Thesaurus Carbon
Norwegian BOK Dictionary
Norwegian BOK Hyph Dictionary
Norwegian BOK Hyphenation
Norwegian BOK Thes Dict
Norwegian BOK Thesaurus3
Norwegian NYN Dictionary
Norwegian NYN Hyph Dictionary
Norwegian NYN Hyphenation
Nynorsk Spelling
Portuguese Hyphation Dictionary
Portuguese Hyphenation
Portuguese Spelling
Portuguese Spelling Dictionary
Portuguese Thesaurus
Portuguese Thesaurus Dictionary
Spanish Dictionary
Spanish Hyphen Dictionary
Spanish Hyphenation
Spanish Spelling3
Spanish Thesaurus
Spanish Thesaurus Dict
Spanish Thesaurus Dict 2
Swedish Dictionary
Swedish Grammar
Swedish Grammar Dictionary
Swedish Hyphenation
Swedish Hyphenation Dictionary
Swedish Spelling3
Swedish Thesaurus Dictionary
Swedish Thesaurus3
UK English Thesaurus
US English Hyph Dictionary
US English Spelling Dictionary
US English Thesaurus

Proofing Tools Shipped with Office 2008

These are the proofing files that were installed in Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools (note the change of location from Office 2004).

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BokmalHyphenation.proofingtool
BokmalSpeller.proofingtool
BokmalThesaurus.proofingtool
BrazilianHyphenation.proofingtool
BrazilianSpeller.proofingtool
BrazilianThesaurus.proofingtool
DanishHyphenation.proofingtool
DanishSpeller.proofingtool
DanishThesaurus.proofingtool
DutchHyphenation.proofingtool
DutchSpeller.proofingtool
DutchThesaurus.proofingtool
EnglishGrammar.proofingtool
EnglishHyphenation.proofingtool
EnglishSpeller.proofingtool
EnglishThesaurus.proofingtool
EnglishWordForms.lexicon
FinnishHyphenation.proofingtool
FinnishSpeller.proofingtool
FinnishThesaurus.proofingtool
FrenchGrammar.proofingtool
FrenchHyphenation.proofingtool
FrenchSpeller.proofingtool
FrenchThesaurus.proofingtool
GermanGrammar.proofingtool
GermanHyphenation.proofingtool
GermanSpeller.proofingtool
GermanThesaurus.proofingtool
ItalianGrammar.proofingtool
ItalianHyphenation.proofingtool
ItalianSpeller.proofingtool
ItalianThesaurus.proofingtool
JapaneseProofing.proofingtool
NynorskHyphenation.proofingtool
NynorskSpeller.proofingtool
PortugueseHyphenation.proofingtool
PortugueseSpeller.proofingtool
PortugueseThesaurus.proofingtool
SpanishHyphenation.proofingtool
SpanishSpeller.proofingtool
SpanishThesaurus.proofingtool
SwedishGrammar.proofingtool
SwedishHyphenation.proofingtool
SwedishSpeller.proofingtool
SwedishThesaurus.proofingtool