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I'm trying to find proofing tools for Office 2010 on MS site, but something is completely wrong. All the links now bring me to the Office 2013 options. Even the link "Download a Language Pack for Office 2010" on http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/language-packs/office-2013-language-options-FX102851176.aspx brings me to Office Language Pack 2013 page.
Actually I don't need the full language pack, I just need the spellchecker working for some languages (russian, estonian, some more). As I see it is possible to freely download such proofing tools for Office 2013, but they don't work with Office 2010.
What I show do and where I can them?
Thanks in advance,
Vadim
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
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Unfortunately, links to older proofing tools seem to get broken with each new version of Office. I hope that this is just a mistake, but, as I wrote in September, I don't know. A fellow MVP has sent a question to the Office team and someone will post back with a reply as soon as we have one.
We are in October 2015 and it looks like that all the links from earlier responses do not work anymore. Why doesn't Microsoft just provide these proofing tools for free for Office 2010 (as they do for Office 2013)? Can't they see that it is because of headaches like these (i.e. it is a hassle to install a proofing tool on Word) that they are loosing market share to Google Docs etc? I'm a heavy user of Excel so occasionally I open Word to compose a text (since I have Office 2010 installed anyways). It is ridiculous however that they want to (I) make money on proofing but (II) don't make it available on their website. Aren't the teams responsible for these older softwares ashamed of the lack of basic support?
It is possible that Microsoft has discontinued the Office 2010 proofing tools, since those are now two versions old, but I haven't seen an official statement. I hope someone else can prove me wrong on this.
Hello! I tried to purchase Proofing Tools for Microsoft Office 2010, but when I clicked on the link, I was tranfered to a page regarfing Microsoft Office 2016. Can you tell me why does it happen and how can I purchase and/or download Proofing Tools for Microsoft Office 2010?
Microsoft is beeing a real dick about all the previous versions. Any search that was related to previous versions are now automatically forwarded to the new software, to promote them (much like apple and this info isn´t much helpful) what is helpful - Use torrent sites to download the free proofing tools without much hassle.