OFF2000: Differences Between MultiLanguage Pack and Non-English Office 2000

• Microsoft Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack

SUMMARY

This article compares some of the features of Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack with features of non-English versions of Office 2000.

MORE INFORMATION

See the table below for more information.

  Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack (LPK)   Non-English Office 2000
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  Worldwide Executable                        Worldwide Executable 

  Language AutoDetect                         Language AutoDetect   

  All Proofing Tools                          Some Proofing Tools

  Single Version:                             Multiple Versions:   
  The Language Pack Kit (LPK) is              There are many language-
  available only for the English              specific versions of Office
  version of Office 2000.                     2000, such as French, German, 
                                              and Japanese Office 2000.

  Single Installation:                        Multiple Installations:   
  With the use of the LPK,                    With non-English versions 
  it is possible to install                   of Office, it is 
  many languages within a single              necessary to run Setup for
  Setup.                                      each language of Office
                                              being installed.

  Single Service Pack Installation            Multiple Service Pack
                                              Installations

  Some components cannot switch User          Non-English components
  Interface/Help; for example,                 
  PhotoDraw and Publisher.
  

  Centralized support:                        De-centralized support:
  Many of the features in the LPK             Non-English Office versions
  share common technologies, such as          ship with files that
  the Office Language Settings tool.          may or may not work with 
                                              other language-specific
                                              technologies, such as
                                              Click and Type.

  Tracking Components:                        Tracking Components:
  The fonts and templates that                With non-English versions,
  corporations need are                       there might be extra fonts,
  included and are easy                       templates, and so on
  to track.                                   that may be harder to track
                                              for a multinational company.

  Roaming User Scenario                       Roaming User Scenario:
  with Windows 2000:                          Cannot use roaming users
  Roaming user profiles work                  across Windows 9x/Windows
  best with MultiLanguage version             NT 4.0 or mixed-language 
  of Windows 2000 due to                      versions.
  technology features.
 

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/enterprise/evaluation/wwapp.htm

Additional query words: OFF2000 localized multilanguage kblpk

Keywords : kbdta kblpk
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo