MS Office question

[Ribol]

I am visiting someone in Switzerland who has just bought a PC there. Presumably(?) anything written(eg start, done etc) on the PC will be in his chosen language(Italian).
What happens if I install MS Office that was bought in the UK? Will all the prompts/spellcheck be in English or are there other files on the installation CD that will change that to Italian when it recognises what country the PC was bought in?
I suppose the real question is, is there a different MS Office CD depending on which country it is bought in or are they all the same?

Thanks

[Jinx]

I assume it would just be part of the language settings in the office environment. Just ensure you have the necessary language settings installed locally and you should be able to "flip" between them.

[flossythepig]

Multilingual support needs to be installed as part the initial installation process (or added later). I think Italian dictionaries are supplied as standard.

You must also remember the keyboard layout for an Italian PC is different (Italians don't have X).

Look at MS Web

[ATG]

This is based on my experience of mucking about with a French install of Office on a French install of XP, trying to get it looking like a UK install. Spell checking isn't a problem as a large number of dictionaries seem to be available as standard. Keyboard mappings aren't a problem either as they are a standard part of the O/S. Date formats, currencies and other standard internationalisation configurations at the machine level seem to work fine too. What I couldn't do was change the language in which menu items and dialogues were displayed.

That came as a surprise as Microsoft themselves recommend that developers don't hard code menu and dialogue text, but instead get their programmes to read this text from resource files so that the user can pick the language they want to see. I assumed that multilingual resource files would ship as standard with applications like Office, but maybe they don't?