Office 2007 - using proofing tools from another language version

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I have got both the Dutch as well as the US English versions of MS Office 2007 and I was wondering if it is possible to use the proofing tools from the Dutch version in the English version.

On the Dutch DVD there is folder called Proofing.nl-nl which contains another folder: proof.nl. I take it these are the proofing tools. I installed the English version of Office first. After that, I tried to run Proof.msi from the folder I mentioned earlier, hoping that this way I could install the Dutch proofing tools. That didn't work, I got an error message.

After that I tried a custom install of the Dutch version over the English version, installing only the Dutch proofing tools. This resulted in 750MB of extra disk space usage. I quickly figured out why so much disk space was used: apart from the proofing tools, Office also decided to install all the Dutch user interface files, so I can switch from English menu's, help, etc. to their Dutch equivalents.

That's all not what I want. To put it simple: I want the English Office 2007 with Dutch proofing tools. Nothing more, nothing less. I know that one can buy language packs, but that seems a waste since I have both the Dutch and the English version lying here on my desk.

Does anyone know how I can "hack" the Dutch proofing tools into the English version? Perhaps I should edit some of the XML files in the installation, but I have no idea what I should put in them.

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I tried to do the same with Polish proofing tools, but it unfortunately ended with the same results.

After having done some research I found these links:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us...3.mspx?mfr=true

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us...3.mspx?mfr=true

Too bad none of them helped me.. but I haven't yet time to "integrate" additional proofing tools into installation. Maybe this one will help, I'll check it out next week.

I even tried to do some manual file "hacking" after the installation. I unpacked the proofing tools for Polish from the msi installation file (Install Explorer for Total Commander helped a lot with that), but it didn't yet worked.. after that I figured out that Office is looking for proofing files in Application Data folder for your account (%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Proof). I copied the files into it and the grammar checker started to work, but only the grammar :/

I've also found these:

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/arc...-pack-2007.aspx

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/arc...utch_2900_.aspx

I don't have the MLP, but maybe the second link will help me, i'll check it out.