How to change the installation language of Office 2013

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Hi,

I bought the boxed version of Office 2013 Home and Business English edition at a local store.

I come home, open the box and there's no disc (!??)

I go to office.com/setup as per instructions, enter my key and then forced to created a microsoft account.

While creating the microsoft account, I chose by mistake Canada - French.

At the installation page, I realize that the selected language is French and that I cannot change it.

I go over all th My Account options to find the language setting in order to change it but no hope.

I figure that if I download the media maybe I will get the option of choosing my language... guess what.

I burn the image, pop the disc in and its only in French with no choice of choosing English!!!

Please Help I bought an English version, I want the English version!

Thanks,

Please note: this is not about the input language but the installation language (GUI)

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Anonymous

2013-12-13T14:37:20+00:00

The resolution is mentioned on page 2 of this question.

Contact MS Support. Battle the dragon, keep asking to be transferred until you find someone you can convince to issue you with a new product key. They will cancel your current subscription and you start over.

It's not pretty, but that is all they have for you right now. It is a defect / bad decision in the design of the 365 admin pages. I hope they get around to fixing it some time soon!

There is easier way than calling and fighting with Microsoft Tech support and trying to get refund. As selected language is in the installation file download file URL with the parameter of e.g. "language=en-US"
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Anonymous

2013-11-20T04:52:05+00:00

The resolution is mentioned on page 2 of this question.

Contact MS Support. Battle the dragon, keep asking to be transferred until you find someone you can convince to issue you with a new product key. They will cancel your current subscription and you start over.

It's not pretty, but that is all they have for you right now. It is a defect / bad decision in the design of the 365 admin pages. I hope they get around to fixing it some time soon!
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Anonymous

2013-11-20T01:01:32+00:00

I'm literally having the exact same issue. Mine is in Portuguese as well. I felt like such an idiot thinking that I had accidentally clicked the wrong language, but now seeing that sooooo many other people have experienced the same thing, I am wondering if it was a glitch. Still trying to figure out a resolution.
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Anonymous

2013-11-11T16:38:49+00:00
Hi There,

for downloading Office 2013 in any edition.
- please go to your myaccount page in office.
- click on where it ask for install , with the architercture that you want to install. Do not bother about the default language that is selected.
- it will download a small click to run application.
- do not run that application. Just copy the link of that downloaded click to run application file. Once you get the link copy it and paste it in the address box of Internet explorer and then do the change in address, change language to install into "/en-us/".
That is all you need to do.

Thanks.
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Anonymous

2013-11-01T16:57:59+00:00

I did not make any mistakes. When I selected Language and install options, then from the dropbox I select English. On top of the page it says for MAC, but when I install it downloads an EXE file which is useless for MAC. How can I get the DGM file for my MAC?
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