If you have a contact in another country who frequently uses non-English words in her emails or if you are subscribed to an newsletter that’s written in some foreign language, here’s how you can quickly translate email messages into your native language without leaving Microsoft Outlook.
Microsoft has released a tiny utility that, upon installation, will add the Live Search translation service into Outlook, Word and all other Office programs.
You can then select individual words, paragraphs or the entire text of your email message and translate into any other language through the "Translate" command in the contextual menu or from the Research task pane of Office.
Anything new? Language translation is available in all Office programs by default but it was powered by WorldLingo – now that Microsoft has developed their own Language translator, the above utility will simply replace WorldLingo and that may mean some addition language pairs for your Office. Hat tip Kip Kniskern.
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Reader Comments
I believe that with the world becoming a smaller place and the opportunities to do business with less physical boundaries, email translation is indeed a necessity. Being able to communicate in different languages is a great facilitator.
However, the quetion remains, can the auto-translators be trusted to provide an accurate and reliable translation?
Written by Yael Beeri on 04.19.09
Well, doesn’t that mean your email contents will be sent to Microsoft servers? Individuals may not care about confidentiality of their email. But the Prime Minister’s Office better be careful.
Written by Maneesh on 04.20.09