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SUMMARY

The Word 2000 Multilingual White Paper describes how to configure your computer so that you can easily work with multilanguage documents.

Microsoft Office 2000 programs let you edit and view documents in many languages by taking advantage of the Unicode text-encoding standard. If you do any of the following, you may want to use the multilanguage capabilities of Word 2000:

You work with documents that contain text in more than one language.
You work in a multinational organization.
You share documents with people who use Office on systems that run in other languages.

For additional information about using Word 2000 to proof words in different languages and to edit and view documents in other languages, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212400 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212400/EN-US/ ) WD2000: General Information About International and Multilingual Features

To download the Word 2000 Multilingual White Paper, follow these instructions. The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Wd2000ml.exe (http://download.microsoft.com/download/word2000/wd2000ml/1.0/win98me/en-us/wd2000ml.exe)

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119591/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

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MORE INFORMATION

WHAT ARE MULTILINGUAL FEATURES? 
WHAT'S NEW WITH MULTILINGUAL SUPPORT? 
Open and save multilingual files
Automatic language detection
Type multilingual text
Insert dates and times in many languages
Format multilingual documents
Print multilingual documents
Change your interface language

SET YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM TO WORK IN MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE
Install system support for multiple languages
  To install multilanguage support in Windows 2000
  To remove multilanguage support in Windows 2000
  To install multilanguage support in Windows NT 4.0
  To install multilanguage support in Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
  To remove multilanguage support in Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me)
  To install keyboard layouts
  To remove keyboard layouts
  To switch keyboard layouts
Requirements for Asian, right-to-left, and other types of languages
Asian languages (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and  Korean)
About Input Method Editors (IMEs)
  To Install an Input Method Editor
Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, and Turkish languages
Right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, and Urdu)

SET MICROSOFT WORD TO WORK IN MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE
To install Office 2000 international support
To turn on (enable) editing of multiple languages in Microsoft Word
To turn off (disable) editing of multiple languages in Microsoft Word
About the Microsoft Office 2000 Proofing Tools
About the global interface and the Microsoft Office 2000 MultiLanguage Pack
Global interface
How to obtain the Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit
Microsoft Office 2000 MultiLanguage Pack
  On which disk is each language located?
  Change the language for the user interface of Office programs
  Change the language for Help in Office programs

UNICODE SUPPORT IN MICROSOFT OFFICE
Fonts provided with Office 2000

LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE-COMPONENT CAPABILITY

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 MULTILANGUAGE PACK AND MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 PROOFING TOOLS
What's included in each package?

FOR MORE INFORMATION
  Microsoft Web Resources
  Microsoft Word 2000 Support
  Microsoft Download Center
  Microsoft Office Update
  Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit
  Office 2000 Multilingual Deployment Guide White Paper
  Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles