Multiple Office languages and versions on same PC

[MastaLo]

Hi all,
I've searched disscussions and have not found an answer, but I see that
there are many helpful people here, so I hope I have a worthy question...

Situation: Stand-alone PC in a Spanish and English home.
XPHome SP2 in English
Office 2003 Enterprise installed in Spanish {90110c0A-6000...}

Goal: Allow users to switch between Spanish and English Office GUI's.

Problem: We do not have the original Enterprise Spanish CD.

What I've already tried: Clicking the Language setup under Office Tools
prompts for Install CD (SKU011.CAB). Don't have it. Tried fooling Setup by
changing the "CDcache" reg key value from 2 to 0. This allows me into the
Language selection window, but already shows 'Ingles' (English) as the
selected office language. <scratch head> huh? I make sure everything says
Ingles and then click OK.
Restarted PC and Office is still Spanish. I don't understand. I thought we
could just change back and forth. There are files in MSOcache but I guess it
doesn't have all of them for it to work. I don't know, so I restored the
cdcahe value to 2 again.

Question: Is there a way to change the languages between Spanish and English
in my situation?

If not, Will installing Office 2007 trial in English allow the Spanish
speaker to continue using 2003 Office Enterprise Spanish and 2007 in English
side by side?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi MastaLo,

While I've not seen any test results on your particular scenario, Office 2007, unlike earlier versions is 'language neutral' so from
that aspect the Office program files shouldn't step on each other beyond what you'd run into in running multiple product series
together as mentioned here.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us?FR=1

If you're going to go with Office 2007 then you can purchase the Spanish Language single Language Pack to add to give you both UI
languages.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/HA100910041033.aspx

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Hi all,
I've searched disscussions and have not found an answer, but I see that
there are many helpful people here, so I hope I have a worthy question...

Situation: Stand-alone PC in a Spanish and English home.
XPHome SP2 in English
Office 2003 Enterprise installed in Spanish {90110c0A-6000...}

Goal: Allow users to switch between Spanish and English Office GUI's.

Problem: We do not have the original Enterprise Spanish CD.

What I've already tried: Clicking the Language setup under Office Tools
prompts for Install CD (SKU011.CAB). Don't have it. Tried fooling Setup by
changing the "CDcache" reg key value from 2 to 0. This allows me into the
Language selection window, but already shows 'Ingles' (English) as the
selected office language. <scratch head> huh? I make sure everything says
Ingles and then click OK.
Restarted PC and Office is still Spanish. I don't understand. I thought we
could just change back and forth. There are files in MSOcache but I guess it
doesn't have all of them for it to work. I don't know, so I restored the
cdcahe value to 2 again.

Question: Is there a way to change the languages between Spanish and English
in my situation?

If not, Will installing Office 2007 trial in English allow the Spanish
speaker to continue using 2003 Office Enterprise Spanish and 2007 in English
side by side? >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*