Planning an International Move to Office 2000

Migrating Settings from Previous Localized Versions to Office 2000

If your organization is upgrading from a previous localized version of Microsoft Office to Office 2000 with Microsoft MultiLanguage Pack, you can customize the Office Setup program so that users’ settings and preferences migrate from the previous localized version to the new installation of Office 2000.

Because user settings in the previous localized version of Office are designed to work with that language version, the settings cannot migrate across language versions of Office. Therefore, if you are deploying Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack and you want to migrate user settings, you must set the installation language of Office 2000 to match the language of users’ previous localized version of Office. Then, when users run the Office Setup program, their settings migrate to Office 2000.

Note   You can also migrate user settings from a previous localized version of Office to the matching language version of Office 2000.

If a standard deployment throughout your organization is important and you don’t want to deploy multiple settings for the installation language, leave the installation language set to English and disable migration of user settings. In this case, user settings cannot migrate across language versions of Office, and settings from previous non-English versions of Office are lost.

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When you deploy Office 2000, you can specify the installation language, which sets the default behavior of Office 2000 applications. For information about customizing the installation language during deployment, see Customizing Language Features.

You can disable migration of user settings in the Office Custom Installation Wizard. For information about using this wizard, see Office Custom Installation Wizard.