Proofing tools for Office 2010

Anonymous
2013-04-07T12:54:21+00:00

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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  1. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-10-22T11:52:41+00:00

    Thanks, Doug.

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  2. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-10-22T06:14:55+00:00

    Proofing Tools are no longer available for Office 2010 for which Mainstream Support ended on 13 October 2015.

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  3. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-10-19T08:21:37+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-19T01:25:19+00:00

    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?

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  5. Stefan Blom 352.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2015-09-29T19:53:40+00:00

    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.

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