{"id":7852,"date":"2020-02-24T20:25:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2020-02-24T20:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:28:20","slug":"office-updates-in-an-unfamiliar-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/office-updates-in-an-unfamiliar-language.htm","title":{"rendered":"Office updates in an unfamiliar language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks ago, I spotted this, when I went to apply updates to Office 365 ProPlus on my work laptop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Has anybody else in the English-speaking world seen this when installing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Office365?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Office365<\/a> ProPlus updates? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8VcC5bMkPU\">pic.twitter.com\/8VcC5bMkPU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mark Wilson ???? (@markwilsonit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/1221783401029677056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had me confused, but Colin Powers (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Iamcolpow\">@iamcolpow<\/a>) pointed me to <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/msoffice\/forum\/all\/ms-window-comes-up-in-arabic-why-how-can-i-make-it\/de1c08e5-beb9-4fc9-a8d1-fa67ff83a1fc\">a Microsoft Community forum post<\/a> with a potential fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I changed the language order in my Office settings so that English was the first option after Match Windows. Whatever was causing Windows to fall back down the list then went to English rather than Arabic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/office-proplus-language-1.png?resize=700%2C571&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Office Language Preferences as originally set\" width=\"700\" height=\"571\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/office-proplus-language-2.png?resize=700%2C571&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Office Language Preferences after the change\" width=\"700\" height=\"571\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I can read the dialogue boxes on my Office updates! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I spotted this, when I went to apply updates to Office 365 ProPlus on my work laptop: Has anybody else in the English-speaking world seen this when installing #Office365 ProPlus updates? pic.twitter.com\/8VcC5bMkPU &mdash; Mark Wilson ???? (@markwilsonit) January 27, 2020 It had me confused, but Colin Powers (@iamcolpow) pointed me to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/office-updates-in-an-unfamiliar-language.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Office updates in an unfamiliar language<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[47,217],"class_list":["post-7852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-office","tag-office-365"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Office updates in an unfamiliar language - 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