The easiest way to get language packs for Windows 8.1 and Windows RT is to download and install them using the Language Control Panel. Download and install additional languages to view menus, dialog boxes, and other user interface items in your preferred language.

Install a language for Windows. If a language is listed under Preferred languages but doesn't appear on the Windows display language list, you'll first need to install its language pack (if it's available). Select Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region.

Learn how to download, install, and configure Language Accessory Packs for Microsoft 365 to add additional display, help, and proofing tools to Microsoft 365.

Use the Language bar when you: Want to switch between languages with a Latin alphabet, such as English, Spanish, or French, and a language with a non-Latin alphabet, such as Arabic or Chinese. Want to switch between languages with a non-Latin alphabet, such as Greek or Russian.

Windows 11 Windows 10. You can add an input language in Settings. Adding an input language lets you set a language-preference order for websites and apps. It also lets you change your keyboard language. Select Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region.

If you need to add text that's in a language other than the one you normally use, Office can help check spelling and grammar for you. Receive basic guidance in more than 20 languages, and spelling suggestions in more than 80, using Editor with Microsoft 365.

Set the region, device language, and spoken language for your products and services.

Select File > Options > Language. Under Office display language, on the Set the Office Language Preferences, select Install additional display languages from Office.com. Choose the desired language in the Add an authoring language dialog and then select Add.

To translate just a bit of text from a message, select that text and right-click. Outlook will show you the translation right there in the context menu that appears. You can also select text and right-click to translate to your preferred language when you're composing an email.

In Word and Outlook, you can use accent marks (or diacritical marks) in a document, such as an acute accent, cedilla, circumflex, diaeresis or umlaut, grave accent, or tilde. For keyboard shortcuts in which you press two or more keys simultaneously, the keys to press are separated by a plus sign (+) in the tables.