Companion proofing languages for Office 2013

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Applies to: Office 2013, Office 365 ProPlus

Summary: Identify the companion proofing languages that are included with Office 2013, and understand Downloadable proofing tool packages for Office 2013.

Audience: IT Professionals

Each language version of Office 2013 includes proofing tools for a set of companion languages. For example, when you deploy the English version of an Office 2013 product, users receive proofing tools for both Spanish and French in addition to English.

Proofing tools include spelling and grammar checkers, thesauruses, and hyphenators. They might also include language-specific editing features such as Language AutoDetect, AutoSummarize, and Intelligent AutoCorrect.

Depending on the number of user interface languages that you want to deploy and the included companion proofing languages, Office 2013 Language Packs might provide all the proofing tools that you want. For more information about Office 2013 Language Packs, see Plan for multilanguage deployment of Office 2013.

Office 2013 also provides downloadable proofing tool packages for the English, Japanese, and Spanish versions of Office 2013. For more information, see Downloadable proofing tool packages later in this article.

Important

This article describes methods to deploy and manage language packs for the Windows Installer-based (MSI) delivery format of Office 2013, which is available for enterprise organizations through volume licensing. If you have an Office subscription and you are deploying Office 365 ProPlus, which uses the Click-to-Run delivery format, see Plan for multilanguage deployment of Click-to-Run-based Office installations.

In this article:

  • Identify companion proofing languages

  • Downloadable proofing tool packages

Identify companion proofing languages

The following table lists companion proofing languages for each primary language in Office 2013.

Companion proofing languages for Office 2013

Primary language Companion proofing languages

Arabic

Arabic, English, French

Brazilian

Brazilian, English, Spanish

Bulgarian

Bulgarian, English, German, Russian

Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Simplified), English

Chinese (Traditional)

Chinese (Traditional), English

Croatian

Croatian, English, German, Serbian, Italian

Czech

Czech, English, German, Slovak

Danish

Danish, English, German, Swedish

Dutch

Dutch, English, French, German

English

English, French, Spanish

Estonian

Estonian, English, German, Russian, Finnish,

Finnish

Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Russian

French

French, English, German, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish

German

German, English, French, Italian

Greek

Greek, English, French, German

Hebrew

Hebrew, English, French, Arabic, Russian

Hindi

Hindi, English, Tamil, Telegu, Marathi, Kannada, Guajarati, Punjabi, Urdu

Hungarian

Hungarian, English, German

Indonesian

Indonesian, English

Italian

Italian, English, French, German

Japanese

Japanese, English

Kazakh

Kazakh, English, Russian

Korean

Korean, English

Latvian

Latvian, English, German, Russian

Lithuanian

Lithuanian, English, German, Russian, Polish

Malay

Malay, English, Chinese (Simplified)

Norwegian (Bk)

Norwegian (Bk), English, German, Norwegian (Ny)

Polish

Polish, English, German

Portuguese

Portuguese, English, French, Spanish

Romanian

Romanian, English, French

Russian

Russian, English, Ukrainian, German

Serbian (Latin)

Serbian (Latin), English, German, French, Croatian

Slovak

Slovak, English, Czech, Hungarian, German

Slovenian

Slovenian, English, German, Italian, Croatian

Spanish

Spanish, English, French, Basque (Basque), Catalan, Galician, Brazilian

Swedish

Swedish, English, Finnish, German

Thai

Thai, English, French

Turkish

Turkish, English, French, German

Ukrainian

Ukrainian, English, Russian, German

Vietnamese

Vietnamese, English, French

Downloadable proofing tool packages

Beginning in Office 2013, free downloadable proofing tool packages in 52 languages are available to all customers who have purchased the on-premises (MSI-installed) version of Office 2013, whether or not they are volume license customers. You can download these proofing tool packages in 32-bit or 64-bit versions from Office Proofing Tools. If you are a volume license customer, you can download the Office 2013 Proofing Tools Kit from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. The Office 2013 Proofing Tools Kit contains the proofing tools for all languages that are available with Office 2013.

The following proofing languages are available:

  • Arabic

  • Basque (Basque)

  • Brazilian

  • Bulgarian

  • Catalan

  • Chinese (Simplified)

  • Chinese (Traditional)

  • Croatian

  • Czech

  • Danish

  • Dutch

  • English

  • Estonian

  • Finnish

  • French

  • Galician

  • German

  • Greek

  • Gujarati

  • Hebrew

  • Hindi

  • Hungarian

  • Indonesian

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Kannada

  • Kazakh

  • Korean

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Malay (Malaysia)

  • Marathi

  • Norwegian (Bokmål)

  • Norwegian (Nynorsk)

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Punjabi (India)

  • Romanian

  • Russian

  • Serbian - Cyrillic script

  • Serbian – Latin script

  • Slovak

  • Slovenian

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Tamil (India)

  • Telugu

  • Thai

  • Turkish

  • Ukrianian

  • Urdu

  • Vietnamese

See also

Plan for multilanguage deployment of Office 2013
Customize language setup and settings for Office 2013