MS Office update produces a different language when asked to enter OS X password

[Padaung]

Hi, I've just downloaded the most recent MS Office 2011 14.3.8 update. I got all the way through the installation process as normal, but when I got to the enter your password for OS X bit, this came up. Anyone have any ideas what is going on?

"Installer probeert nieuwe software te installeren. Type your password to allow this."

Then the usual Name: and Password: boxes.

I would normally expect to only see English. For now, I stopped at this screen and didn't complete the installation.

 

[firedept]

Wow that's weird. Just completed the update and everything came up English.

 

[CrickettGrrrl]

To me, what's especially weird is that it's a mix of 2 languages --Dutch and English, rather than just one or the other.

 

[Nermal]

I ran into that a couple of years ago. In my case it was Japanese, and I put it down to having previously launched Word with the OS language set to Japanese. Have you ever used Dutch on your system?

 

[Padaung]

Thanks for the replies. I've never used Dutch anywhere on the computer (and thanks for identifying the language - I was curious!). How weird...

I'm about to try the install again - I'll have to close all applications, will report back

 

[Padaung]

After rebooting before trying the re-install. It still showed the one message with the same mixture of two languages.

I just carried on with the installation this time, put it down to a weird quirk rather than anything else.

All seems fine - fingers crossed!

 

[CrickettGrrrl]

After rebooting before trying the re-install. It still showed the one message with the same mixture of two languages.

I just carried on with the installation this time, put it down to a weird quirk rather than anything else.

All seems fine - fingers crossed!

That's good to hear that you got everything installed & working correctly. The Dutch sentence was nothing onerous, just stating that "Installer is attempting to install new software". Probably what it would have stated in English if things hadn't gotten oddly jumbled.