Languages Word can detect automatically

Some of the content in this topic may not be applicable to some languages.

When you use automatic language detection, you may need to install spelling and grammar files for the languages you want to work with.

Microsoft Word can automatically detect the following languages:

• Arabic
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai