Language and Translation

Quick reference

• 00:04 The Review ribbon contains another great feature which is called Language.
• 00:08 We can translate and we can change the language that we type in or
• 00:12 the language that displays on our screen.
• 00:14 Let's go ahead and click that one first.
• 00:19 The options are Set Proofing Language and Language Preferences.
• 00:23 When I click the Set Proofing Language,
• 00:26 I can tell it which language I want it to spell check in.
• 00:30 After you made your selection, go ahead and click OK and rerun your spellcheck.
• 00:35 The second option under Language and Language is Language Preferences.
• 00:40 When this screen opens, it allows me to change the language on the buttons, menus,
• 00:45 and other controls.
• 00:46 Down below, this is where I can manage the language used for
• 00:49 creating and editing documents like the proofing language.
• 00:52 So it's the same button on the front screen, but it's here as well.
• 00:56 I'll click OK on that, but I'm not making any changes on my screen.
• 01:01 Now let's go to the second best thing in the world, translate.
• 01:04 My goodness.
• 01:06 When we activate the translate button, we have two options,
• 01:10 translate just a selection or the entire document.
• 01:13 I'll go ahead and select a line of text, come up to the Review ribbon, Language,
• 01:18 choose Translate and Translate Selection.
• 01:23 You'll see a panel appear on the right hand side, and
• 01:26 notice at the top I can translate just a selection or the entire document.
• 01:30 Now in this case I'd already had Spanish chosen,
• 01:33 I can hit that drop down and I can type in a different language, and
• 01:38 it will translate, and then I can go ahead and click Insert.
• 01:42 Now before I go on,
• 01:43 I want to show you something else that's happening up here on the Review ribbon.
• 01:47 We have a Read Aloud button, so
• 01:50 when I click on just this example and
• 01:54 hit Read Aloud, listen to the English language.
• 02:00 >> Sample text to translate below, choose your language on Review ribbon.
• 02:04 >> Okay, I can stop that.
• 02:05 Now if I select that paragraph again, come to the translator and hit insert.
• 02:12 Watch what happens when I hit the Read Aloud button.
• 02:22 >> Even the pronunciation is accurate, this is fantastic.
• 02:25 Let's try it again, I'm going to triple click
• 02:30 that paragraph, change this to Spanish,
• 02:34 click on Insert, and hit the Read Aloud button.
• 02:43 >> I love this.
• 02:44 All right, let's do the final part, and that is translating the entire document.
• 02:48 Now before I do this, I don't have to even select the entire document.
• 02:52 I'm just going to click on it, tell it to auto detect,
• 02:56 translate the entire thing to Spanish and hit translate.
• 03:01 Translation is complete.
• 03:02 If I'd like I could go back to the Review ribbon, hit Read Aloud and
• 03:06 have the entire document read to me in Spanish.
• 03:09 If something changed I want to take a note of that, take a look at my title bar.
• 03:13 It just says Word, it doesn't have my document title,
• 03:16 that's because there are two documents open right now.
• 03:19 I'll click on the View ribbon, switch windows, and
• 03:23 it shows me my original Exercise document, View ribbon,
• 03:27 Switch Windows, and my new one that hasn't even been saved yet.
• 03:32 So it protects your original document but
• 03:35 hands you a translation on a separate piece of paper, this is wonderful.
• 03:39 I really encourage you go into the Review ribbon, experiment with the Language and
• 03:44 the Translation and then hit the read aloud.
• 03:47 You might be able to learn how to speak and
• 03:52 pronounce another language properly.

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