Language and Translation

Quick reference

• 00:04 On the review ribbon, we have a section called language.
• 00:07 And in here we have the translation, which translates text into different languages.
• 00:13 And we have language that allows you to choose a language for
• 00:16 proofing tools such as your spell check.
• 00:19 So let's go ahead and click on the language first and
• 00:21 set our proofing language, okay?
• 00:23 And so mine, it will show it default up at the top,
• 00:27 but if you want to change that you can certainly choose a different one.
• 00:31 And then choose set as default, and then hit OK.
• 00:35 Another one under language is our language preferences.
• 00:38 When you click that, now it's asking us to choose our editing language,
• 00:42 like which language are you typing in.
• 00:44 And right down here, choose display and help languages.
• 00:47 So which languages do you want to be displayed on your screen.
• 00:50 So basically, ultimately control even the language that is displayed,
• 00:54 typed in and proofing tools later so.
• 00:58 All right now let's go ahead and go on to translate.
• 01:01 I do have some sample text on the screen.
• 01:03 And when we click on the translate, it shows us three options.
• 01:06 Translate the entire document.
• 01:08 Mine is defaulting to Spanish cuz I had set that up earlier.
• 01:12 And this, it's going to send you over the Internet to a third party translator.
• 01:16 That's okay.
• 01:16 We'll have it don't show this again and I'll say yes.
• 01:20 And what you'll see on you screen is it's actually going out to the Internet.
• 01:25 And so, you're going to see a translation happen on the screen that's probably
• 01:29 too big for the screen.
• 01:30 Let me see. There we go.
• 01:32 And so it translated from English to Spanish,
• 01:36 and all I would have to do in here is just click on this entire thing,
• 01:40 control A to select it all, copy it and then I can come right back over here,
• 01:45 go to the end of my document and paste all that text.
• 01:49 Okay.
• 01:50 And so now you can see that the Spanish is written on the screen.
• 01:53 So that's a quick way to dump a bunch of text on to the Internet,
• 01:59 translate it, and bring it right back.
• 02:01 All right, let's do this a simpler way, all right?
• 02:03 Let's go to translate, selected text.
• 02:05 So let's just say I will just have this one paragraph, translate selected text.
• 02:09 And tell this, don't show it again.
• 02:14 And this basically, instead of going out to the internet,
• 02:16 this shows up with a task pane right over here on the right-hand side.
• 02:20 Since it was just selected text, here is that section of the text.
• 02:25 And now again, I can just click and drag, and choose this text.
• 02:29 I can hit Insert right there, and
• 02:31 it replaced all that English text with Spanish just by me clicking insert.
• 02:36 That's pretty great.
• 02:37 All right, and now let's do one more.
• 02:40 And so I'm gonna just select a couple words on this one.
• 02:43 Go right back up to translate, and then mini translator.
• 02:46 When I click the mini translator, Don't show again.
• 02:49 I don't know why that keeps coming back and hit yes.
• 02:52 And so what happens here is a little translator will show up now on
• 02:57 my right click.
• 02:58 Let's see if I can get this on here, there we go.
• 03:01 I have a little translate button right here on my right click and
• 03:04 it comes just up to a tiny little translation section right over here.
• 03:08 So anyway it’s kind of nice to know that you can set your own language and
• 03:12 you can translate the full document, some text, or use a mini translator.
• 03:17 And it will just help you when you’re in this multicultural world that we’re in and
• 03:22 it'll help you communicate.
• 03:24 Thank you.

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