This method installs only the necessary language parts for the products that are installed on the user's computer. This method involves combining the language resources with the source of the original installed Office 2016 product, changing the Config.xml file to add the appropriate languages, and rerunning Setup.exe from the Office 2016 installation source. When you use this recommended method, a language is treated as another feature to add to a deployment of Office 2016. There are two methods that you can use to add languages after you deploy Office 2016: For more information, see Download language packs, language interface packs, and proofing tools for volume license versions of Office. The Office Multilanguage Pack and proofing tools for Office 2016 are available through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs. However, if you upgrade your multilingual organization to Office 2016 before all the language packs are released, you can always add or remove additional languages at any time. The Office 2016 Multi-Language Pack, which includes all available language packs, is not released until after all the individual language packs are released. Although the most frequently deployed languages for Office 2016 are released at the same time as the product is released, many other Office 2016 Language Packs are released over time.

Office 2016 language packs enable Office applications to display menus, dialog boxes, Help topics, and other text in the user interface in multiple languages. If you have an Office subscription and you're deploying Microsoft 365 Apps, which uses the Click-to-Run installation technology, see Overview of deploying languages for Microsoft 365 Apps. This article describes methods of deploying and managing language packs for versions of Office 2016 that use the Windows Installer (MSI) installation technology, which are available for enterprises through volume licensing.

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