Friday, September 02, 2005

Office 2003 Add-in: Desktop Language Settings

Download details: Office 2003 Add-in: Desktop Language Settings

"Overview
This download allows you to identify and change language, keyboard, and regional settings for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office 2003 programs with a single tool. You can compare the settings of these programs and make changes as appropriate.

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This program incorporates the functionality of tools such as:
Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings
The Language bar
Text Services and Input Languages
Regional Language Options "


I've been having in Unicode/Language/asian character set "fun" for the last few months. That makes this add-in sound interesting...

The downside is that this add-in is really just a wrapper/menu system for the related underlying Windows/Office applets. So while it's nice to have all the info on one form, there's no easy way to change all the settings at one time (i.e. convert all the system display/language/settings/etc from English to Japanese). You still have to go through each applet to make the given changes...

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