About creating a European language document

The following provides basic information about working with European languages in documents.

• You should enable the language you want to work with for editing in Microsoft Office.
• Depending on the language, you may need to install the appropriate keyboard layout. If you change your keyboard layout to a language that you're less familiar with, you can use Microsoft Visual Keyboard to display and enter characters. For more information, visit the Microsoft Office Online Web site.
• Your language version of Microsoft Office may contain built-in proofing tools (such as spelling dictionaries and grammar checkers) for popular languages. For example, the English version of Office contains proofing tools for French and Spanish.
• Microsoft Word includes basic translation capabilities, as well as machine translation on the World Wide Web. Learn more about translation in Word.
• Most Microsoft fonts include support for Central and Western European languages, and many also include support for Greek and languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet.

For additional functionality, such as translation dictionaries, you can purchase Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools.