"Office XP Pro with Frontpage" installation language issues

[pperusse]

Hi all,

I have a computer running Windows XP in French... And, anytime I
install Office products, they magically decide to install themselves in
French.... While on "XP English" computers the same disks install in
english (I just tested it). So I guess, Office magically decides the
installation language based on the OS language.

The problem is, I have problems exchanging WORD documents with
collegues because they do have office installed in english (on english
XPs)...

See, I am very fond of using styles with Microsoft WORD... But the
styles have different names in french & english. "Title 1" in french is
"Heading 1" in english. While most of the time Word do a pretty good
job translate the styles names, its is not TOTALLY functionning in all
cases. See, I am using the {STYLEREF "Titre 1" \* MERGEFORMAT} to
insert "Chapter name" information in my headers... While in french this
is just perfect, in english the style "Titre 1" does not exist!

I tried using "Heading 1" in STYLEREF for the French MS Word, hoping
that maybe Office developpers implemented both the international style
name & the US english style name... Well no, they didn't. Now, my
collegues do well but I am not!

While this is the first issue I have now, who knows how many I will
have in the future? So, I decided to try changing the MS Office
Installed language! I used the Office Resource Kit - Custom Maintenance
Wizard to change installed options. For an unknown reason, no change
was effective, though the process seems just to have worked fine!. I
configured the following User Settings:
- MS XP (user)\Language settings\User Interface\Display menus and
dialog boxes in => US English
- MS XP (user)\Language settings\User Interface\Display help in => US
English
- MS XP (user)\Language settings\Enabled Languages\Installed Version
of MS Office => US
English
- MS XP (user)\Language settings\Enabled Languages\Show Controls and
Enable Editing For\English (US)


So, I am relying on someone to help me out with this. Anyone has a
suggestion other than "Reformat, Reinstall XP ENGLISH, Reinstall
Office"? Or a suggestion other than "Rename ALL your styles to custom
names.... Those won't be translated between english & french"?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Peter Foldes]

Is your Office XP version MUI?

 

[pperusse]

Well... my Office CD says: Microsoft XP Professionnal (in fact I have 2
CDs but I never needed the second CD yet). It does includes Access
along with all other office programs.

So I really do not know! How could I tell?