>Nadya,
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>Thank you for the information. I followed your advice and went through the Word help files to setup my system for multilanguage support. I have that, but it looks like I need the "Multilanguage Pack" in order to actually see the interface change and the Cyrllic characters. Do you know, is that part of the "Office 2000 Resource Kit", or a separate product?

Hi Mark,

As far as I recall, I did these steps to "russificate" my home and work computer: (Windows 95 and Windows 98) I went to Settings/Control Panel/Add/Remove Programs Windows Setup, Multilanguage support and installed it. Now I can switch my keyboard to Russian by Ctrl+Shift and type : Äîáðûé äåíü. (don't know, if it would be shown correctly in IE page, though). Some of the Cyrillic fonts were installed automatically. (You will see Cyr in the font name). So, you can use basic fonts (Arial, Curier, Times New Roman, etc.) to print Russian. If it's a non-standard font, you may have problems.

AFAIK, I didn't install anything else, but it was two years ago, so I don't recall all details.

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>Also I appreciate your offer to help with translation. We have a person who can translate English to and from Russian. But we'll keep it in mind because we don't know, yet, how large this project will grow. Also, we will need to translate information and web pages into Russian, Italian, and Japanese as well.
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Well, I will be glad to help. Though it's not an easy task to make a good proffessional translation from one language to another. I found it when I was translating Mike's Asherman letter to MS into Russian. It may require some special skills.


>Thank you also Igor, Alexander, and Bryan for your input. Those sites are interesting and look very useful.
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>>If I need to create documents in Word in the Russian language do I need to have a Russian version of Word and/or a Russian version of Windows? Or, can I translate an English Word document into Russian? Which is easier? less expensive? etc.?
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>>Thanks.
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>You don't need to have Russian Word, but you have to install Multilanguage support for Russian (e.g. switch to Russian keyboard and couple of Cyrillic fonts). I could not find Russian SpellChecker for Word 2000, so I don't have it. But I can write in Russian at home and at work. At work, unfortunately, I don't have labels for Russian letters, so I use "direct" keyboard, e.g. each English letter corresponds to closest Russian...
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>Here is an extract from Mike's Asherman letter (I haven't checked the mentioned site yet):
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>I found a really handy site for free automated translation at http://translation2.paralink.com/, which handles both text and entire web pages. (If you know of any better translation sites, I'm always interested.)
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>Hope this helps.