Microsoft Translator For Microsoft Office

Microsoft has released an add-on for Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 that adds their Live Search Translator to these programs replacing the default WorldLingo translator. Replacing is not probably the best word to describe it as WorldLingo is still available and can be selected on a language per language basis in the translation options. Microsoft Translator will be the default translator with WorldLingo set as the fallback translator.

To install Microsoft Translator download the installer from the Microsoft website and execute it on a local computer system. Make sure Microsoft Office is closed during the installation. The installer will then add Microsoft Translator as the default Office translator automatically for the languages that are supported by it.

The add-on will add a button to the Review ribbon which will translate selected text in a document automatically and display it in the Research pane in Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Translator will automatically detect the language of the selected text. The default language to translate into is English unless the text that has to be translated in English. In this case it is French. Pulldown menus are available to change the target language of the translation on the fly.

A click on Translate Options in the Research pane allows for the selection of the WorldLingo translator for selected languages instead of the Microsoft Translator. Microsoft Translator will work in Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Visio and Publisher.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Saturday April 18, 2009 -
Tags:microsoft translator, microsoft-office, office, office 2003, office 2007, office add-on, outlook translator, word translator, worldlingo

Responses so far:

1. Paulus says:

   April 18, 2009 at 5:03 pm

   Great find Martin and again thanks a lot.

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2. Simon says:

   April 21, 2009 at 3:06 am

   Well,

   I’ve just tried to translate a simple answer to this post from English to French to English. I wasn’t able to understand it at all.

   So, excuse-me but I’ll need to be back in my classroom as soon as I can. This is the very most motivation I’ve never add to learn English properly.

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3. jiny says:

   November 10, 2009 at 6:04 am

   very nice and translator very good for thai and english

   Reply
4. Anonymous says:

   May 11, 2011 at 5:44 pm

   my computer’s microsoft office is in dutch,wich I can’t understand! I want it to be in English .PLEASE can you help me?

   Reply