Differences between MultiLanguage Pack and non-English Office 2000

  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 MultiLanguage 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,                    Multiple installations of 
  it is possible to install                   Office to the same partition 
  many languages within a single              to have multiple languages
  Setup.                                      is not supported. The
                                              supported method is to 
                                              install English Office, and
                                              then install additional
                                              languages with the Multi-
                                              Language User Interface.

  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.