Proofing tools for Office 2010

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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

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Anonymous

2015-01-30T16:38:57+00:00

I have just had a reply from Microsoft that appropriate teams are working to address this problem, but it is more complex than they initially thought. Take heart, though: MS is aware of the problem and working on it!

Update: This is now fixed. The link to Download a Language Pack for Office 2010 now actually goes to a site to download a language pack for Office 2010. Hooray!

Well it's gone again in that case :

**Sorry, the page you're looking for can't be found.**No se encuentra la página que está buscando.Désolé... La page que vous recherchez est introuvable.Die gesuchte Seite wurde leider nicht gefunden.申し訳ございません。お探しのページが見つかりません。很抱歉，无法找到您要寻找的页面。很抱歉，找不到您要尋找的頁面。
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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2015-01-30T17:14:52+00:00

Yes, they do keep moving these pages around. I googled for "Office 2010 language pack" and eventually got to this page, which has a link that actually works; it leads to http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.253665800?cdid=[lc], which (at least for now) appears to work.
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Anonymous

2015-01-30T17:40:30+00:00

Thanks ... I have the Language Pack already ... I can type and spell check in the all the various "normal" languages English, German, Italian, French etc I can even use Korean and Chinese BUT I have a new user who is Russian - I've got the Russian keyboard just fine !! I can get the keyboard OK but not the proofing tool / old fashioned spell checker !!!!!!
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Anonymous

2015-01-30T17:42:53+00:00

Yes, they do keep moving these pages around. I googled for "Office 2010 language pack" and eventually got to this page, which has a link that actually works; it leads to http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.253665800?cdid=[lc], which (at least for now) appears to work.

Sad you have to BUY something that came with the program to begin with. Mine had worked perfectly for years. It's as if the whole Office 2010 program is disintegrating one thing after the next. Now Word documents I open on a regular basis won't open, even some created in 2010. The clock won't stay synced either. I give up. Time for a new computer.

Thanks for your help Suzanne!
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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2015-01-30T19:57:43+00:00

You do NOT have to buy language packs for the languages that came with the program. If you have an English version of Office, you will have proofing tools for English, Spanish, and French (all flavors of each). It is only if you want proofing tools in another language that you have to buy a language pack. If your built-in proofing tools are not working in Office 2010, try repairing the installation.
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