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
    2014-02-07T13:30:27+00:00

    I also have the same problem.

    However when I Go to https://office.microsoft.com/MyAccount.aspx?fromAR=1 , I can not choose language, as it is in grey...

    How can I change to English? I can not use office in Lithuanian, as it is installed at the moment.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-07T11:29:13+00:00

    Wow, it has soon been a year since this problem was initially brought to Microsoft. I too encountered this problem and installed the wrong language first. Microsoft is really amazingly bad at fixing this simple bug. (I managed to install English version using the workaround mentioned in the thread.)

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-02-03T08:32:37+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-12-28T13:55:26+00:00

    Hello,

     I had the exact problem. This link will resolve the issue :

    http://itsolutionsblog.net/installed-office-2013-in-the-wrong-language/

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-12-13T20:48:24+00:00

    I have the same problem. Microsoft support is friendly but not able to help: Blind for this thread, deaf for suggestion to refund. I tried that with that language URL, but it is not working at my end - well, I need the Belgian Dutch files (language=nl-BE) instead of en-US.

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