Language conflict in dialogue boxes

Hi,

I have a Vista machine English (home premium) running Office 2007 English
standard. I also installed Office 2000 professional Japanese and kept those
programs I had not upgraded to Office 2007 (Access etc).

Initially, I was not able to read most of the dialogue boxes of the 2000
programs. Some Japanese did show up, but most of the characters were
mojibake, or garbage.

After some fiddling around I was able to fix this without any apparent side
effects. This was a couple of months ago. But in the last month, something
has happened so that now I am getting Japanese language dialogue boxes when
my programs first open or update. This applies to all programs, not just
Office (itunes, adobe are two examples).

I am computer competent but not an expert, I am knowledgeable enough to know
that trying to retrace what might have happened is going to take more time
than I want to spend, a lot more. I was hoping for a quick-ish fix.

There are two language settings options under the two versions of microsoft
office tools installed in my programs list (one English, office standard
2007, and one Japanese, office professional 2000. The Japanese version
defaults to Japanese, the English version defaults to English.

I am guessing that is where the conflict may lie, but I am not sure what to
do about it. I have tried turning things on and off so that the English
language version is dominant, but with no luck as yet.

There are no language interface packs installed on the computer. It is
essentially an English language machine. The Japanese language option is
turned on for use with the keyboard, but it is not the default. I suspect the
cause may be traced back to some of the fiddling I did to fix the initial
Japanese language display problem, but I use the word 'fiddling' accurately.
I am not sure I could accurately retrace those steps.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Japanese Language Pack for 2007 is not expensive. I think it is $24.95 in
the U.S. Unless there is something in Office 2000 that you really need, I
don't see why you keep it around.

Earle

"mojibake" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a Vista machine English (home premium) running Office 2007 English
standard. I also installed Office 2000 professional Japanese and kept
those
programs I had not upgraded to Office 2007 (Access etc).

Initially, I was not able to read most of the dialogue boxes of the 2000
programs. Some Japanese did show up, but most of the characters were
mojibake, or garbage.

After some fiddling around I was able to fix this without any apparent
side
effects. This was a couple of months ago. But in the last month,
something
has happened so that now I am getting Japanese language dialogue boxes
when
my programs first open or update. This applies to all programs, not just
Office (itunes, adobe are two examples).

I am computer competent but not an expert, I am knowledgeable enough to
know
that trying to retrace what might have happened is going to take more time
than I want to spend, a lot more. I was hoping for a quick-ish fix.

There are two language settings options under the two versions of
microsoft
office tools installed in my programs list (one English, office standard
2007, and one Japanese, office professional 2000. The Japanese version
defaults to Japanese, the English version defaults to English.

I am guessing that is where the conflict may lie, but I am not sure what
to
do about it. I have tried turning things on and off so that the English
language version is dominant, but with no luck as yet.

There are no language interface packs installed on the computer. It is
essentially an English language machine. The Japanese language option is
turned on for use with the keyboard, but it is not the default. I suspect
the
cause may be traced back to some of the fiddling I did to fix the initial
Japanese language display problem, but I use the word 'fiddling'
accurately.
I am not sure I could accurately retrace those steps.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.