Office Add-On Makes Live Search The Default Translator
Windows only: Microsoft has a new add-on for Office 2003 and 2007 that sets Microsoft Translator—used in the Live Search service—as a more robust and multi-language translator than the WorldLingo default.
If you’re intrigued, download the tiny executable at the link below, make sure you have all your Office programs closed, then run the installer. The change is subtle—the Translate button is still there on the Review ribbon, but it uses the web-connected Microsoft Translator as the default, with WorldLingo as a fallback option. Whether you click the translate button or right-click on selected text and hit “Translate,” the results pop over from the right and show your text in a new language. You can set up a default language pair to translate from/to, and, well, that’s about it.
The translator works in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Publisher. It’s a free download that requires Office 2003 or 2007 on Windows.
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@FRIEDjellyWALNUT: I have 64-bit Vista as well, and I have office in the default install folders. This program installed just fine.
It works great with Japanese and Chinese.
NipponBill
It doesn't work if Office isn't installed in its default installation folder, i.e. C:\Program Files\Office, I have 64 bit Vista, and since Office is a 32 bit program, it gets installed in the C:\Program Files (x86) folder, which is not detected by this program.
Does anyone know any possible solutions to this? Or better yet, a comparable add-on that integrates Google Translate instead (which is much better for English to Chinese, which are the two languages that I primarily translate between)?
that french translation in the image is... not a positive advertisement for this, haha
NicolesBoots
I tried installing this and it wouldn't install because I don't have office 2003 or 2007 installed. Except that I do. The only thing I can think of is that I chose custom install and didn't install publisher or access or a couple of other programs I would never use and so when the installer tried to find those to update it couldn't.
John Rudd
The french text in the image above proves there's no translation like human translation...
Unless it was intentionally garbled.
Alexandre Lemire
@aidan.cage: no
does it work with Word 2003 Portable?
@NipponBill: Hm, that's odd, did you run the installer with Administrative privileges?