Use Windows Live Translator to Translate Office Documents

Microsoft Research Machine Translation team has announced Windows Live Translator services have been integrated into Office suite. This new language translation services on office suite allow office user to perform translations of major texts quickly and easily in their office document.

"We have officially handed over our code to the Microsoft Office team for the integration of the translation tool directly in the Research Task Pane.  Once they have finished their own testing and "flipped the switch" on their side, the feature will auto-update in existing versions of Office.  I'll blog about that here again when that happens - at that point, no additional setup steps will be necessary."

By default, Microsoft Office suite using language translation features provided by WorldLingo. However, the WorldLingo language translation service is limited. So, integrating Windows live translator on office can give office user an extra language translation tools option to translate office document language quickly.



THE LANGUAGE PAIRS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM WINDOWS LIVE TRANSLATOR :

English -> Chinese (Simplified)

English -> French

English -> German

English -> Italian

English -> Arabic

English -> Chinese (Traditional)

English -> Dutch

English ? Japanese

English ? Korean

English ? Portuguese (Brazil)

English ? Spanish

If you interesting install windows live translator services on your office. You can check out the configuration or installation of Windows Live Translator on Translation team blog.

Meanwhile, the installation of Windows Live translator currently works on Office 2007 suite only.