In this article, we\u2019ll explore manual and automated methodologies to deploy extra language packs and configure the default language in Microsoft Office 2019, 2016, and Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (formerly known as Office 365).<\/p>\n
In Microsoft Office, the language preferences can be adjusted in the following individual settings:<\/p>\n
If you already have Microsoft Office installed on your computer, you can manually download additional MS Office Language Packs and assign your preferred language.<\/p>\n
If you need to use the automation tools (SCCM, Intune, scripts, GPO) to manage language packs and MS Office settings on multiple computers, the manual method is not suitable.<\/p>\n
To find out which Office language packs are installed on your computer, use PowerShell to check the following registry parameters<\/a>.<\/p>\n List installed language packs:<\/p>\n Discover the Office interface language set up in the current user profile:<\/p>\n For Microsoft Office 2021\/2019\/2016 and Office 365 versions that are distributed using C2R packages, the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) can be utilised for automating the installation of additional language packs.<\/p>\n Download the ODT and extract it to a local drive. Create an add-language.xml file with the following configuration:<\/p>\n <Add Version=”MatchInstalled”><\/p>\n <Product ID=”LanguagePack”><\/p>\n <Language ID=”de-de” \/><\/p>\n <\/Product><\/p>\n <\/Add><\/p>\n <Display Level=”None” \/><\/p>\n <\/Configuration><\/p>\n <Language ID=”de-de” \/><\/p>\n For more details about how to set up and handle language packs in Windows<\/a>, you can read more here.<\/p>\n Following these steps, navigate to the directory containing ODT and implement the command:<\/p>\n ODT will download and install the specified language pack (German in this example) for your version of MS Office.<\/p>\n For more information, see How to install specific Microsoft Office applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you need to remove one of the installed language packs, use the XML file:<\/p>\n <Remove><\/p>\n <Product ID=”LanguagePack”><\/p>\n <Language ID=”de-de” \/><\/p>\n <\/Product><\/p>\n <\/Remove><\/p>\n <\/Configuration><\/p>\n You can then use Group Policy to set a default language for MS Office users..<\/p>\n In Microsoft 365, you can assign a user\u2019s language preferences using the command:<\/p>\n If a user is synced to Microsoft 365 from an on-premises Active Directory, you can assign a language to the user by using the In this article, we\u2019ll explore manual and automated methodologies to deploy extra language packs and configure the default language in Microsoft Office 2019, 2016, and Microsoft 365 Apps for Business (formerly known as Office 365). In Microsoft Office, the language preferences can be adjusted in the following individual settings: Editing Language Display Language Help Language […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,128,144,117,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-group-policies","category-microsoft-365","category-ms-office","category-powershell","category-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10252,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions\/10252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Get-Item \"HKCU:SOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice16.0CommonLanguageResourcesEnabledEditingLanguages\"<\/code><\/p>\n(Get-ItemProperty HKCU:SOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice16.0CommonLanguageResources).UILanguageTag<\/code><\/p>\nDeploy Additional Language Packs with Office Deployment Tool (ODT)<\/h2>\n
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Add Version=\"MatchInstalled\"<\/code> \u2013 This implies that modifications should be applied to any version of Office installed on your computer, regardless of whether it’s Office 2019 or 365.<\/li>\nLanguage ID=\"de-de\"<\/code> \u2013 This signifies the language pack to be installed. Multiple language packs can be indicated in this manner:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<Language ID=\"fr-fr\" \/> <\/code><\/p>\n\n
<Language ID=\"MatchInstalled\" \/><\/code><\/p>\nSetup.exe \/configure add-language.xml<\/code><\/p>\n<Configuration><\/pre>\n
Change Language Settings for MS Office with GPO<\/h2>\n
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Get-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName maxbak | Set-MsolUser -PreferredLanguage \"de-DE\"<\/code><\/p>\npreferredLanguage<\/code> attribute:<\/p>\n<\/div>\nGet-ADUser<\/a> maxbak -Properties PreferredLanguage | Set-ADUser<\/a> -Replace @{PreferredLanguage = \"de-DE\"}<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"