How to change the installation language of Office 2013

Anonymous
2013-02-02T23:38:44+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-28T10:00:22+00:00

    Oh man, you have saved me from such a headache at work today. Such a simple and useful solution, excellent tip!

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-26T08:11:25+00:00

    One bit of help for others:  

    • when you save, click "view downloads"
    • then right-click on the saved file and select "copy download link"
    • paste URL into Internet Explorer and edit the link for your desired language (for me it was "fr-FR" to "en-us") 
    

I could do all that, but when I paste and enter into internet explorer, it isn't able to act on the command that looks like this: C:/Users/pcuser/Desktop/Setup.X86.en-us\_ProfessionalRetail\_xxxxxxxx\_TX\_SG\_.exe . Any ideas?  I get an error "cannot find...
 check the spelling and try again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-19T12:45:43+00:00

    If you bought an english pack and mistakenly setup your office 2013 to canada - french. Uninstall the office and install it again and choose your desired language.

    or

    from office option add the English-US enable it and download the Proofing tool http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/language-packs/?LpArch=x86 and install.

    Once you've installed the language pack from Review Menu Language and Translating make the English-US your default language.

    Hope this will help.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-18T10:13:59+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for choosing Microsoft Community.

    Have you referred the link posted by Nestea123 on March 15, 2014 and one of my post posted on March 10^th^ 2014?

    If you have not referred, then I would suggest you to refer to those links and check if it helps.

    Let us know if you need further assistance.

    Thank you.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-03-18T00:16:36+00:00

    Hello, a year ago my sister bought me my laptop and since then office has been in spanish. I would rather have it in english, for i dont know much in spanish. how do i change it to english. please help

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