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When you start a non-English (U.S.) version of any of the Microsoft Office 2000 programs, one of the following symptoms may occur.

Microsoft Access 2000

You receive the following error message:

Microsoft Excel 2000

No error message is displayed, and Excel 2000 does not start.

Microsoft FrontPage 2000

You receive the following error message:

Microsoft Outlook 2000

You receive the following error message:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000

No error message is displayed, and PowerPoint 2000 does not start.

Microsoft Word 2000

No error message is displayed, and Word 2000 does not start.

These symptoms occur if the following are true:

• You are running the English (U.S.) version of one of the following operating systems:
  • Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98
  • Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows 2000

  -and-

• You installed and removed the English (U.S.) version of Office 2000. -and-
• You then installed a non-English (U.S.) version of Office 2000.

It is not a supported configuration to install a non-English (U.S.) version of Microsoft Office 2000 on a non-matching language version of Windows. For additional information about supported configurations for Office 2000, click the article number below
to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

You can work around this problem by running the Language Version utility (Langver.exe), which is included in the Office Resource Kit core tool set. The Office 2000 Resource Kit core tool set is available for download from the following Microsoft Web site:

To run the Language Version utility, follow these steps:

1. On the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, point to Microsoft Office 2000 Resource Kit Tools, and then click Language Version.
2. In the Use defaults for edit box, select the language you want. By default, the dialog box appears with the language of the operating system that is selected.

Administrators use the Language Version utility to change the LCID settings in the localized Windows registry, so that Office 2000 is installed with the correct language features.

NOTE: You can also run the Langver.exe utility on an English version of Windows to reset Office 2000 language settings; however, this use of the tool is not supported.

Article ID: 257945 – Last Review: August 9, 2012 – Revision: 6.0