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That is *NOT* what the OP asked. Of course you can do what you say but to change the Office XP German into XP English is only achieved by installing the English version of the Office Suite
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"Joel Rubin" <jmrubin@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:FF4Me.6872$Je.3619@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:32:16 +0100, "Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>You can't change the language of XP. You will have to purchase a full
>>retail English version XP CD. You can then either install the English
>>version instead of the German one or dual boot both.
>
> Of course, you can use just about any language's keyboard and
> character set in any version of XP. (Control/Regional and Language
> Options, Language tab, details)
>
> You may need a Windows CD although German to English/U.S. might not be
> quite as big a deal as when you install support for an ideogram
> language or right-to-left language in a Latin alphabet version of
> Windows.
>
> You might not be able to get dialogs and help files for standard
> Windows progies in English but it might not be that big a deal.
>
>