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I tried the proofing tools in Office 2007, unlike 2003 proofing tools, it installs without any SR and TTS engine. Is there a place I can get the SR and TTS engines?

I ran into some conflicting information about use, or inability to use the 2003 proofing tools on the Office site.  The following seems to suggest that they are indeed usable:

To expand advanced editing and UI support to up to 37 additional languages, you can add one or more Office Language Pack 2007 or the Office Multi-Language Pack 2003 to any localized version.

...while other pages suggest that they are incompatible.

Do you have a definitive answer?

It seems it might not be useful to acquire Vista or Office 2007 until the multi-Language Packs are available in June (or later)

777ted@gmail.com

You can check this out on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA102113691033.aspx. I am trying to get also italian and German tools, but by now I was unsuccessful.. let's go on with office 2004 until the release...

"Microsoft releases localized versions over a period of several months following the initial release of its products. The first Single Language Packs will be available for purchase in March 2007. All languages are expected to be available by May 2007. The retail version of the Multi-Language Pack is expected to be available in stores in June 2007. Note: All dates are subject to change."

Bug report: Office 2007 upgrade-install over PTK2003 installed from CD sources

I had a big problem trying to do an upgrade-install of Office 2007 over [Office 2003+PTK] on a WinXp machine. The installation ended up partly broken, as Word 2007 kept doing a per-user 1st-time install over and over again whenever the user looked at document properties for an existing .doc file, trying to install the English spelling checker again and again. Even uninstalling and reinstalling Office 2007 didn't help cure this, surprisingly, it just created a new problem, prompting for a PTK.MSI which wasn't available, as PTK2003 (which presumably contains the required PTK.MSi) was installed from CD, and the CD was not in the drive.

Office 2007's installer needs to do the right thing in the upgrade case where the installation is upgrading over PTK2003, and that scenario clearly needs to be listed as a use-case included in the testing matrix.

This is quite a nightmare experience for less technical users, as the unhelpful Windows Installer prompt for a missing mysterious gives the user no clue as to where the required PTK.MSI might possibly be found or even which product it comes from, leaving the user completely stranded.

Recommendation: Windows installer needs to tell the user which product to get a source file from, especially in a "multi-product, combined MSI sources" situation like this.

Best,

Cecil Ward.

As you can see on this blog, the Single Language Packs for Office 2007 are now available for download, so you can now get proofing tools for languages that are not provided by default with your version of Office: see http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguage/archive/2007/04/04/single-language-packs-available-for-office-2007-users.aspx for details.

Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT]

I just had a long support call with MS and the result was that the real Multi Language Pack (which includes the Proofing Tools installer) got delayed until later this year (2007). No ETA possible, not even a rough estimate. The technician told me, after talking to 3rd level Office developers, that the only option I have is to install the Proofing Tools as part of a single language pack, which will result in 39 entries under Add/Remove Programs if I install all of them (which I have to) and caching everything even though I only need the Proofing Tools. This way I have to carry about 11-20 GBytes in my image instead of a couple 100MBytes just for the Proofing Tools. This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Besides that he said I'm the only one who called and requires just the Proofing Tools. And besides the fact that Proofing Tools were available since Office 97 (just 10 years) and are now, 9 months after the initial release of Office 2007, still not available for their state of the art flagship product. I guess Microsoft really rules the world and can do what they want, regardless how much it costs other companies to stay in business.

When will the MLP finally be available???

We really require the "third disk" as soon as possible!

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/archive/2006/10/23/Install-another-Office-2007-Proofing-Tools-_2800_e.g.-Dutch_2900_.aspx

I just downloaded the Russian language pack and am very unimpressed.  It doesn't use Unicode, so the installer text comes up as gibberish.  Not keen to have to go through the trouble of changing the system code page and reboot (normal users are going to know how to do this?), I tried to fire up a virtual machine to do it so I could at least translate the options.  Of course, the damn thing uses SecuROM and so it doesn't work in a virtual machine.

Easy as pie.

When....will this MLP finally be available.

As enterprise organisation we are paying a lot of money for something we don't get.

The licensing website is telling us that we can download the MLP, however it is actually just the LP.

Come on MS; get your product ready!

ollow the link above for the modified setup file for MS Office 2003 Proofing Tools.

Replace the file on the original Proofing Tools CD with this one.

This patch skips the version check performed at start-up and you can install your 2003 proofing tools on a Office 2007 with no problems whatsoever.

I don't know what are those crackheads at microsoft up to but the old Proofing Tools are perfectly compatible with office 2007. (exept a minor glitch with romanian characters)

Frak them, I'm not waiting around forever and pray they will release a 2007 Proofing Tools pack.

Take the file it works 100%.

By the way it's spy/add/virus free.

installing proofing tools for arabic

nao consigo instalar o office,,,

I installed the MLP 2007 but didn't find the Simplified to Traditional and vise versa Chinese converter add-in that used to be in 2003.  Was this not included in 2007?

Aaron, if you installed one of the Chinese language packs, the Simplified to Traditional Chinese converter is located in the Review tab of the Ribbon for PowerPoint and Excel.

However, for Word, it does not show up unless you must change the "Primary Editing Language" to Chinese using "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Office Tools\Microsoft Office 2007 Language Settings.lnk".

I was informed in April 2007 that it is a Word bug that will not be fixed until Office 14.