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How to change text language in powerpoint, change default text and interface language in powerpoint, key takeaways.

Select text, and then click the "Review" tab and select Language > Set Proofing Language to choose the language of any selected text. To change PowerPoint's default language used for its interface as well as any text you insert, head to Options > Language.

Creating a PowerPoint presentation in a different language? You can change the text language (used for spelling corrections) or the interface language (used for menus). Here's how.

The instructions below will work for all recent versions of Microsoft PowerPoint. This includes the version of PowerPoint included with a Microsoft 365 subscription .

By default, PowerPoint will use the same language to check your presentation's text and grammar as your Office installation's default language. However, you can customize the text language used for any text you insert into PowerPoint.

To do this, open your PowerPoint presentation and select any text you've inserted. Next, press Review > Language > Set Proofing Language on the ribbon bar.

In the "Language" box, select a language from the list provided and press "OK" to save your choice.

The text you've selected will now use this language to check for spelling and grammatical errors. If you want to change back at any point, repeat these steps and select your usual language instead.

Related: How to Turn Off Spell Check as You Type in Microsoft Office

PowerPoint uses your default locale language (such as U.S. English) to choose the text for menus and buttons. It also uses this language to set the default proofing language for any text you insert.

If you're in a locale with multiple languages, however, you may want to switch between them. For example, if you're based in the United States, you may wish to use Spanish as your default proofing language for presentations.

This will mean that any text you insert uses this language---you won't need to change it manually. Likewise, you may want to change your interface language to match.

You can change both of these options to use an alternative language in PowerPoint's settings menu. To start, open PowerPoint and select File > Options.

In the "PowerPoint Options" window, select "Language" on the left.

On the right, choose a new language in the "Office Display Language" section and press the "Set As Preferred" option.

This will determine the language used for menus and buttons.

Next, choose a new proofing language in the "Office Authoring Languages And Proofing" section. Press "Set As Preferred" to make it the default proofing language for PowerPoint in the future.

Adding a New Language Pack

If you don't see a language you want to use as your interface or proofing language, you'll need to install the language pack for it first.

To do this, press File > Options > Language in PowerPoint and select either of the "Add A Language" buttons.

Next, select the language you want to use from the pop-up list and press the "Install" button.

Microsoft Office will take a few minutes to download the new language pack. If you're prompted to, press "OK" to confirm and begin the installation.

Once the language pack is installed, select it from your list in the "Office Display Language" or "Office Authoring Languages And Proofing" sections. You'll need to press "Set As Preferred" to make it your default interface or proofing language.

When you're ready, click "OK" to save your choice. PowerPoint will exit and relaunch to display the new language.

Related: How to Change the Language in Microsoft Word

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How do I change the language of all Powerpoint slides at once?

I want to change the proofing language of all my slides in a Powerpoint. I've tried setting the language via the Language Preferences menu, however this only changes it for new powerpoints.

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7 Possible duplicate of Change the spell-checking language on a PowerPoint presentation – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio Aug 31, 2016 at 7:06
1 It seems that the newest version of PowerPoint is especially buggy in this respect. I have a text box where I've changed the language of all text to language A. (The default language is B.) So when I start typing within that text box, the language automatically changes to B. I thought maybe changing the default language helps (having tried everything else) but no. Now the default language is A, the language of all other text in the text box is A (and I've restarted PP) but all new text still appears as B. So my only remaining question is: is there a way to switch proofing off altogether? – lebatsnok Nov 8, 2017 at 9:45
Yes there is a way to turn of spell checking: support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/937422/… -- solved my problem! – lebatsnok Nov 8, 2017 at 9:48
The comment by superuser.com/a/1096722/474383 is actually more relevant. Just changing the keyboard languages (in Windows, not PowerPoint) will make all the newly created text boxes adhere to that language. – Roel Vermeulen Jul 19, 2020 at 15:44
I changed settings but it is not working for new slides, always proofing is English :S – Halil İbrahim Oymacı Sep 7, 2020 at 6:18

9 Answers 9

To change the language of the entire PowerPoint easily, open the View tab and select the Outline view.

Ctrl + A to select all.
Tools → Language → Choose your language to set.

Likewise while you have everything selected you can change other things like fonts, colours etc. Although of course in many case this is better done by changing the slide master, a presentation that has had many editors may have lots of 'hard' formatting set which deviates from the underlying master and needs resetting to be consistent. You can also reset individual slides to the master style, but this may result in placeholders moving as well, which may be undesirable in some situations.

PowerPoint 2013

View → Outline → select all slides (in a left menu) via Ctrl + A .
Review → Language → Set Proofing Language... → Choose your language to set.

As for me - PowerPoint restart was needed. Probably because I also did changed Editing Language :

Review → Language → Set Proofing Language... → Language Preferences → Choose Editing Languages .

65 Thanks for answer, but after changing the language, the newly typed text is still in the previous language (the default one). Moreover, if you go to the master slides, select the slide , you'll notice, that the language in the language bar is still the default one, and the menu to change it is greyed out. I'm getting crazy that it haven't been solved by Microsoft for so many years. – Endrju Apr 25, 2014 at 14:52
8 Powerpoint is just shockingly bad isn't it? I actually miss using open office when I have issues like this. I'll be back to open office as soon as they support saving to a video. – mjaggard Oct 9, 2015 at 14:06
4 Main limitation of this is that if someone in their infinite wisdom created custom text box instead of using proper Title+Content layouts, this just won't work. – Lilienthal Sep 18, 2018 at 13:42
6 Does not work for me as soon as I select multiple slides or even multiple elements on a slide I'm not able to select the language anymore. Maybe due to a very broken master slide, I don't know – Kai May 13, 2020 at 15:52
10 It's absolutely CRAZY that this shit piece of software will not let me once and for ever switch the language used in a presentation deck for good. Yes, you can select all and change it - but every new slide again is presented with the wrong language set... – Zordid Oct 27, 2020 at 13:13

Using Powerpoint 2010 I opened the Outline menu -

Selected all text (Ctrl+A), opened the language menu and set my proofing language

And it worked!

The language menu is located on the Review ribbon tab (after the Slide Show tab and not visible on the screenshot).

5 Only works for a single slide – Helge Klein Oct 16, 2013 at 8:12
18 This works for basic slide layouts. It will not change the language for text inside text boxes or nested within other shapes. – Duncan Jones Nov 25, 2013 at 9:53
Works on Office 2007 too. – Alfredo Osorio Nov 12, 2014 at 19:03
Worked on Office Mac too. – Jim McKeeth Nov 13, 2014 at 18:35

I improved upon Inigo's answer to provide a recursive version that changes all items to the desired language.

This version will recursively investigate each shape that is a group type. Some experimentation suggests that msoGroup and msoSmartArt are the group types - feel free to add to that list if you find other types of shapes that can hold text objects.

2 When running this in PowerPoint 16.10 on OSX, I get: Compile error: Method or data member not found – Etienne Low-Décarie Feb 17, 2018 at 20:20
Thanks a lot for this brilliant solution. If I want the US English, can I just change msoLanguageIDEnglishUK to msoLanguageIDEnglishUS ? – Foad Dec 10, 2020 at 7:40
one other issue I just saw is that it apparently doesn't change the language of the text inside tables. – Foad Dec 10, 2020 at 7:53
1 For those new to Macros (on PowerPoint), help yourself: ionos.com/digitalguide/online-marketing/online-sales/… – Nadjib Mami Jan 5, 2021 at 22:37
Got "Execution error" on line targetShape.TextFrame.TextRange.languageID = languageID with Office 365. – Hebo Apr 28, 2023 at 13:40

The existing answers work for text that is present in the outline. Unfortunately in my case this didn't cover a significant part of the text, including figures, tables, etc.

This macro solved the problem for me :

The "msoLanguageIDEnglishUS" which is used in the above macro can be replaced by any desired language. The full list of languages can be found in this article

(Credit goes to Ganesh Kumar who posted the original macro here . I added support for first level of shape grouping. To further improve it the macro can be made recursive to look for groups which contain other groups, etc.)

+1 Good start. See my answer for a fully recursive version based on this answer. – Duncan Jones Nov 25, 2013 at 9:52

Based on Inigo, Duncan, Maria and DomDev's answers, this works for shapes, tables, groups, SmartArt, now and in the future:

As for other solutions, on when running this in PowerPoint 16.10 on OSX, I get: Compile error: Method or data member not found . Any suggested solutions? It seems to highlight .DefaultLanguageID . – Etienne Low-Décarie Feb 17, 2018 at 20:27
@EtienneLow-Décarie: The API might have changed in PowerPoint 16; I don't have it so I can't check, sorry. – tricasse Feb 19, 2018 at 10:06
Works for me in Powerpoint 2016 on Windows 7 (exact MS Office version is 16.0.11029.20108) – Christopher K. Dec 19, 2018 at 16:18
1 Perfect! Only improvement I could think of is changing the language for slide notes sections, too :) – Marcus Mangelsdorf Apr 17, 2019 at 9:10
The compile error above is because the LanguageID property was not included in the TextFrame object in later PowerPoint versions. Use TextFrame2 instead of TextFrame... – markussvensson Jun 2, 2021 at 13:42

In addition to answer provided by Mastergalen and to address comments regarding newly type text:

If you will notice, that language will automatically change back whenever you start to type new text (which is very annoying), you have to change current default language for PowerPoint:

make sure PowerPoint window is an active window
if not go to Control Panel > Region and Language > Keyboards and Languages . Click Change keybords... , switch to Language bar tab and check Docked in the taskbar option. (this is from Win7, so might be a bit different in other versions).
now key action - in the Language bar in the taskbar, click language code and switch to EN (if you want currently to use English in PowerPoint). From now on, all new text in PowerPoint will be in the selected language :-)
if you want write in your original language, just change it back.

3 But that also changes the keyboard layout, doesn't it?... I want to type English text but I really want to keep my German keyboard layout.... – Johannes S. Jul 16, 2018 at 12:53
2 @JohannesS. If you right click En in the task bar and select Settings.. you will see in Installed languages German (DE) and English (En), if you expand English, there will be Keyboards listed, expand Keyboards, and add your prefered German keyboard, probably remove English one also. I didnt try it, but should work in theory ;-) – Gas Jul 16, 2018 at 21:24
4 Wait, so I need to change my keyboard language if I want to have different proofing language? That's stupid. – Matěj Račinský Apr 4, 2019 at 21:38
1 This is THE answer. I changed the preferred language to English with Hungarian keyboard. Nothing else worked well. If you don't do something like this then all your new English text will be all underlined even if you type in a text box that you previously select all-d to English. It's crazy. – Piedone Nov 23, 2019 at 13:47
1 @MatějRačinský no, you need to change the input language, not your keyboard layout. Windows is smart enough to distinguish between the two, so you can enter Spanish text with a French keyboard layout, and PowerPoint will check Spanish spelling. That is actually quite smart. To configure, in Windows 10 21H1, go to Language settings. You configure a list of Preferred languages at the bottom, and for each one, you can choose a (potentially different) keyboard layout. The language bar then allows you to switch between languages as well as betwen layouts independently. – bers Apr 30, 2021 at 8:45

The version of Duncan works well for everything but tables. I found another code which seems to also work with tables: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4735765/powerpoint-2007-set-language-on-tables-charts-etc-that-contains-text

1 This seems to have worked on Office 365 – Hebo Apr 28, 2023 at 13:39
Powerpoint is around since 1990, and one has to mess with flippin' VB to change the language for the entire presentation. Somewhat pathetic. Nevertheless, thanks for the script. It seems to have worked on my Powerpoint for Microsoft365 (Version 2304 Build 16.0.something.something) – Dohn Joe May 12, 2023 at 14:52

I made an add-in back in 2014 for myself which still works fine in PowerPoint 2016. https://github.com/wobba/officeaddin/releases/tag/v1.0.1

It scans for used languages, and allows you to change all at once, looping over.

1 really - this didn't make it into Powerpoint itself and is only available for windows? – Wolfgang Fahl Dec 13, 2020 at 15:45
I know.. and the add-in model using javascript don't support iterating over object setting the language :( – Mikael Svenson Dec 21, 2020 at 13:43
Does not appear in Office 365, sadly – MappaM Aug 4, 2022 at 9:44
1 The add-in still works fine in Windows desktop version of PowerPoint. But not for Online web version as the API does not support setting language. – Mikael Svenson Oct 16, 2022 at 8:33

If other methods don't help, unexpected changes of the language may also be caused by the language setting in the slide master.

In order to change it, go to View > Slide Master , select the parent-most master slide, select all elements, and change the language as described in the accepted answer . The change should propagate to all layouts, though placeholder text will remain in the original language.

If possible, the clean solution is to use a template configured with the correct language. However, depending on company-mandated templates / the office installation, or simply when trying to fix an existing file, this might not be possible.

It doesn't work on 365 v2008 build 13127.21064. Powerpoint always detect languages even if they are not in the list of language preferences. At the moment i have to go to every text box, select all, and set the "proofing language" to the desired and default. Powerpoint is a really unprofessional software – Daniel Perez Jan 29, 2021 at 9:23
If only it was as simple as that :) – MappaM Oct 16, 2023 at 6:58

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How to change your language settings in Microsoft PowerPoint in 3 different ways

You can change the language in PowerPoint in three different ways to help with editing or translating, or to set your display settings in another language.
To change the language settings in PowerPoint for editing purposes, you'll need to access the "Language..." option in the "Tools" tab.
To translate text, you can launch the Translator tool instead.
If you're looking to change the display language, you'll have to change your operating system settings.
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If you want to change the language in PowerPoint, the presentation program offers you three different options depending on what you need.

You can change the editing language, which tells PowerPoint how to edit text as you type in your preferred language. This may prove particularly helpful if you've been sent a slideshow to edit that's written in another language.

You can also select "Translate…" to use the Translator tool on text in real-time, though Microsoft Office notes that this feature is only available for users with an Office 365 subscription, Office 2019 for Mac or Windows. This feature allows you to highlight entire text boxes or individual words and transform your presentation text any of the languages PowerPoint offers.

Lastly, you change the display language on PowerPoint by altering your operating system's language setting. On a Mac, depending on the language, you may be asked to add input sources.

None of these options affects the others, so you can have different languages for edits, slide text, and display. Here's how to change all three language settings in PowerPoint.

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1. Open PowerPoint on your Mac or PC.

2. Click the "Tools" tab on the top menu.

3. Select "Language…" from the dropdown menu.

4 . In the pop-up window that appears, scroll and select a language from the list.

5. Check the box for "Do not check spelling or grammar" if you don't want PowerPoint to use the language for proofreading.

6. Click the "Set As Default" button if applicable.

7. Click the "Yes" button to proceed.

How to use the PowerPoint Translator Tool for text

1. Open PowerPoint and click "Tools."

2. Choose "Translate..." from the dropdown menu.

3 . The "Translator" window on the right side of your presentation screen will open.

4. Click a text box that you'd like to translate. The text will appear in the white box in the Translator window.

5. Select a language from the "To:" dropdown menu. The translated text will appear in the blue box below.

6. Click "Insert" to insert that translated text in a new text box on the slide. You can then move the text box and resize it as needed.

7. You can also highlight individual words or sentences with different translations appearing below the blue box, depending on the context. Click the three dots to view a sample sentence.

8. Choose "Insert" when you're ready to substitute.

How to change the PowerPoint display language on Mac

1. Click the Apple icon on your Mac.

2. Select "System Preferences…" from the dropdown menu.

3. Click the "Language & Region" option in the first row.

4. Toggle to the individual "Apps" menu.

5. Click the (+) icon in the lower right of the window.

6. Select "Microsoft PowerPoint" from the "Application:" dropdown menu.

7. Select your preferred language from the "Language:" dropdown menu below.

8. Click the "Add" button.

9. Restart the app when prompted.

How to change the PowerPoint display language on PC

1. Sign on to an Administrator account.

2. Select the Start button.

3. Choose Settings.

4. In the window, click Time & Language.

5. Select the Language option.

6. Choose a language from the Windows display language dropdown.

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How to change languages in PowerPoint

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In this post you will learn how to change languages in PowerPoint. Watch our video-tutorial or follow the steps listed down below!

First, select File in the PowerPoint menu. Then go to Options – a window will open. Select Languages . You can change both editing language (to check spelling and grammar) and display language (defines language of tabs and features). If your desired language is already in the menu, you can simply click on it and then select Set as default – Close PowerPoint and restart – your language should be changed now, and you are all done. If you cannot find the language you want, click on Get more display and help languages from Office.com and proceed with the next step.

The Office-webpage now opens. Scroll down a little and you will see a selection box that asks you what language you need. Choose the one you want. In a grey box, two different versions for download show up: 32-bit and 64-bit. To check which one you need, simply go to your computer settings > System > About . Under Device Specifications , you will see whether you have a 32 or 64-bit operating system. Download the version that matches it.

Install the language you just downloaded. To do so, just follow the instructions you get during the installation process. Once that is finished, we will repeat what we did in the first step ( File > Options > Languages ) Your new language should appear now. Click on it, press Set as default and close the Options-window. Next time you start PowerPoint, the language will be changed.

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How to Change Language in PowerPoint for All Slides: A Detailed Guide

PowerPoint is unbeatable for making a visual presentation. It is a persuasive tool for business as well as other purposes, but you have to manage it wisely. If you want to learn how to change language in PowerPoint, this blog is for you. This PowerPoint program offers you some options depending on what you need. The guide below will help you to know how to change the language in PowerPoint. Also, you will learn how to change language correction in PowerPoint.

How to Change Language in PowerPoint?

There are several ways you can change language in MS PowerPoint. It will set the proofing language for your spelling and grammar check. The simplest way how to change language in PowerPoint 2007 is given below-

Highlight and select the text you want to change
Look at the left in the “Status Bar” at the bottom of your PowerPoint window. Click the ‘Language’ button.
Another way is you can go to the ‘Review’ tab, ‘Language’ group, click ‘Language’, select your desired proofing language in the drop-down menu.

Then press ‘Ok.’

By doing this, you can change the default language of your selected part.

However, you are probably interested in learning how to set the language of your entire presentation. This is a bit complex! Yet, the following tricks might help you.

How to Set the Same Language for Everything on a Single Slide?

To set the same language for everything on a single slide, do the following:

Click on the specific slide you want to work on
Now press ‘Ctrl A’ to select everything on the slide
Now, look at the left in the “Status” bar at the bottom of your window
Click the ‘Language’ button
Select the language you want to change
Press the ‘Ok’ option

In this way, you can do this for all your slides. However, if you are working on a longer presentation, this might not be very practical for you. In that case, you can try the following.

How to change the Language of Placeholders Across all Slides in a PowerPoint Presentation?

To execute this properly, follow the steps below:

Go to the ‘View’ tab
Search the ‘Outline View’ option in the ‘Presentation Views’ group to the left
After that, click on a slide in the view pane to the left
Press ‘Ctrl A’ to select all slides of the presentation
Now, click the ‘Language’ button to the left in the Status Bar at the bottom of your PowerPoint presentation
Select the language you want to use

By following this, you can change the language of every slide in your presentation. Besides, it includes elements that have been defined in your slide master, like – tag line placeholders, text placeholders, content placeholders, etc.

However, any text boxes, shapes, or other elements, that have been added to the slides that are not present in the slide master used will not be affected. Therefore, you need to change the language of all the slides described above or use an add-in that automatically sets the language across the entire presentation.

How to Change Language in PowerPoint 2016?

If you want to change the language for Office 2016 or even for the earlier versions, go through the following steps-

Open Office
Now, in the toolbar, go to File> Options> Language.
Click on your options and then “Set as Default.”
If you can’t find your language, click on “Add additional editing languages.”
After that, select one from the list and press “Add.”

You have to be sure that the keyboard layout appears as “Enabled”. If not-

Select and press the “Not enabled” option.
After that, click on “Add languages”> your preferred language> “Add” and then close the dialogue box.

Also, you have to recheck if the proof option is working. If it is installed, it will work for sure. Otherwise, you have to:

Click on “Not installed”. Download the tongue Accessory Pack and follow the instructions. This step is pretty similar to the one in the section above.
In PowerPoint, go to File → Options → Language.
Click on the new tongue and select “Set as Default” or “Match Microsoft Windows” if that is the Office display language.

How to Change the Language of Menus and Buttons in PowerPoint?

To change the display language in PowerPoint , for instance – the language of buttons, menus and controls, follow these steps:

Find out the ‘File’ tab
There, select ‘Options’ in the menu to the left
Select ‘Language’ you can find the menu to the left in the dialogue box
Now, select the default language you want
Select ‘Set as Preferred’
Press the ‘Ok’ button.

If your preferred language is not listed, follow the steps below.

How to Add an Authoring Language?

If you want to add an authoring language, you have to:

1. Open an Office program; choose MS PowerPoint.

2. Now, select File >Options >Language.

3. On the Office Language Preferences set, you will find under Office authoring languages and proofing, select “Add a Language”.

4. After that, choose the desired language in the “Add an authoring language” dialogue.

5. And then, select “Add”. By doing this, a browser page will open where you can download your installation file.

6. Now, select “Download” on the browser page and run the downloaded package to complete the installation process.

7. Afterwards, the added language appears in the list of Office authoring languages.

However, proofing available may appear next to the language name. From there, you can obtain a language pack with proofing tools for your language. However, if proofing is not available next to the language name, then you will know that proofing tools are not available for that language. On the other hand, if proofing installed appears next to the language name, you’re all set.

How to Add a New Language in PowerPoint?

If you want to add a language, choose the UI display language , and set the authoring and proofing language, you can conveniently use the Office language options.

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If your preferred display language is not available in PowerPoint, you can download and install it from the Microsoft Office support page. Also, this is a case when you change the text language of a PowerPoint presentation, but the spelling and grammar check does not seem to work. Therefore, you will not get an error message if your language is not installed.

Therefore, go through follow these steps to learn how to change the proofing language in PowerPoint and add a new display language:

Go to the ‘File’ tab
Then, click ‘Options’ in the menu to the left
After that, select ‘Language’ in the menu to the left in the dialogue box
Click on the ‘Install additional display languages from Office.com’ link
Finally, follow the instructions on the webpage

The above instructions will guide you to download and install display, help, and proofing menus for the language you want to use. However, all install menus will be in the selected language.

Remember that you can set the display and authoring languages independently. For instance, you can use everything in the same language or use a combination of more languages for your OS, authoring, Office UI display, and so on.

Basically, the languages available on your computer depend entirely on the language version of your Office and any additional language pack, language interface pack, or ScreenTip languages.

How can you Change the PowerPoint Display Language on Mac?

If you are using Mac, you can change the PowerPoint display language easily. To do the job, follow the instructions below-

1. To change the user interface, click the Apple icon on your Mac.

2. Then, select “System Preferences” from the dropdown menu.

3. Select the “Language & Region” option in the first row.

4. After that, toggle to the individual “Apps” menu.

5. Then, look at the lower right of the window and select the (+) icon.

6. Later on, click “Microsoft PowerPoint” from the “Application” dropdown menu.

7. Choose your preferred language below from the “Language” dropdown menu.

8. Then, just click the “Add” button.

9. If you want to make it default, mark that option.

10. Restart the app when prompted.

How to Use the PowerPoint Translator Tool for Text?

If you want to use the PowerPoint translator tool, you have to follow the instructions below-

1. Select the “Tools” option in PowerPoint.

2. You will find “Translate….” from the dropdown menu; select it.

3. After that, the “Translator” window on the right side of your PowerPoint screen will open.

4. There, select a text box that you want to translate. Meanwhile, the text will appear in the white box in the translator window.

5. Choose a language from the “To” dropdown menu. By doing this, the translated text will appear in the blue box below.

6. Tap on the “Insert” option to insert that translated text in a new text box on the slide. Afterwards, you will be able to move the text box and resize it as needed.

7. Also, you can highlight individual words or sentences with different translations. You will find it appear below the blue box, depending on the context. Then, tap on the three dots to view a sample sentence.

8. Finally, select “Insert” when you’re ready to substitute.

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The Bottom Line

As you have seen, changing the tongue in PowerPoint is as easy as it can be! Go to the language settings and follow these simple steps. This program will correct your spelling mistakes and will help you with grammar.

Having good knowledge of how to change language in PowerPoint is essential when you want to impress people with the accuracy of your presentation. Therefore, you should learn about it in-depth to deliver the best presentations. For this purpose, you may join this PowerPoint Introduction course for more tips and tricks.

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