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Translate an existing document or set the Word program to use a different language.

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2013, 2016, 2019/365.

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Quick reference

Language and Translation

Discover how you can customize Word to use a different language for the document text, display, and help text. Also translate an entire document or just one word.

When to use

If you work with non-English speaking customers or co-workers, translating documents may be a benefit for you.

If you do not speak English as a first language, you may want to fully customize Word to display in a language of your choice.

Instructions

Quick Translation

  1. Right Click any word and choose “Translate” on the list.
  2. OR, select a paragraph or sentence,
    click the Review Ribbon, , click Translate

    choose “Translate Selected Text”
  1. To Translate an entire document,
    Click Review ribbon, Translate, and choose Translate Document

Set Language Preferences

  1. Click the Review Ribbon, , Language  
  2. Choose the Editing Language, Display and Help Languages and Screen Tip Language
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  • 00:05 The Language and Translation features in Word are awesome.
  • 00:08 If you click the review ribbon up on top, there's a group over here called Language.
  • 00:12 And we have Translate and Language.
  • 00:15 Let's go ahead and click on Language.
  • 00:16 You have two options Set the Proofing Language, which chooses a language of
  • 00:20 the selected text on the screen, and the Language Preferences,
  • 00:24 which will set the editing display, help, and screentip languages.
  • 00:28 So let's go ahead and start with Set Proofing Language.
  • 00:30 Here, you go ahead, and you choose which language you wanna proofread in.
  • 00:35 But down here at the bottom, make sure to hit the set as default, cuz then it'll use
  • 00:38 that language from now on, and you won't have to go back in and change it again.
  • 00:43 All right, the next part of Language is the Language Preferences.
  • 00:46 Here's when you decide what your editing language will be, your display and
  • 00:51 help languages, and then your screen top languages.
  • 00:54 So right up here, I'm going to go ahead and hit this drop down arrow,
  • 00:57 find the language I want to change from editing language.
  • 01:00 I would click the add button and then I would do the same thing for
  • 01:04 the next two sections.
  • 01:06 Alright, now the Translation is It's pretty great.
  • 01:08 When you click the Translate button,
  • 01:11 you can translate the document into English to Spanish.
  • 01:14 But you can change that, you're not stuck with just that one.
  • 01:17 So, to translate your document, it's going to send this out to the internet.
  • 01:21 So, it's very quick.
  • 01:23 That was just seconds and that showed up.
  • 01:25 And there's my entire document.
  • 01:27 Now, what I can do, is I can basically highlight that whole section,
  • 01:32 copy it, closes, come right back into Microsoft Word, and
  • 01:37 I can paste all of that translated text, right there.
  • 01:41 Alright.
  • 01:42 Now let's go back up to the top.
  • 01:43 What if I didn't want to translate the entire document,
  • 01:47 just maybe the first sentence?
  • 01:49 So I'm going to go to Translate, and I'm going to go to Translate Selected Text.
  • 01:53 When I do that, I get a little pane over on the right-hand side.
  • 01:57 This is the mini translator, and
  • 02:00 right over here is the sentence that I have selected.
  • 02:03 It's just so tiny, it's hard to see in there cuz it's kind of busy.
  • 02:08 Then, all I have to do is hit this drop down arrow and choose insert or
  • 02:12 just hit insert directly, and it just inserted that entire sentence right there,
  • 02:16 the translated sentence.
  • 02:18 Okay the next thing I want to show you is on the fly.
  • 02:21 Let's say I've got another section I want to translate right there.
  • 02:25 You can choose from English to a different language right there.
  • 02:29 See now I clicked it over here and yet it showed up over here.
  • 02:32 That's the mini translator.
  • 02:34 It'll pop up right over the section that you wanna translate.
  • 02:38 And so then I could choose a different language, and there it is.
  • 02:43 Can you see it right there?
  • 02:45 And go ahead and hit insert and
  • 02:46 it will show up right there in a different language.
  • 02:48 Isn't that amazing?
  • 02:49 So that is how you use a translator.
  • 02:52 One more little trick for you, right over here, let's see, we'll do elements.
  • 02:56 If you do a right mouse button on any word,
  • 02:59 we do have a Translate there as well.
  • 03:01 So when I click Translate, it will show up on the right-hand side,
  • 03:04 and of course you can change which language.
  • 03:06 And the mini translator shows up and there you go.
  • 03:09 All right, that's it for the Translation.
  • 03:11 I hope that helps you.

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