Kannada interface for MS Office

Chennai: Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, has launched a Kannada language interface for its Microsoft Office 2003 programme.

The Kannada Language Interface Pack (LIP) can be downloaded at no additional cost from www.microsoft.com/downloads. The launch of the Kannada LIP is an integral deliverable under Microsoft's Project Bhasha wherein Microsoft is committed to provide Indian language interfaces for MS Windows and MS Office in 14 Indian languages. Microsoft has already released fully localised MS Office suite in Hindi and Hindi LIP for Windows XP in February 2004.

With the launch of Kannada language interface, users will now have a complete multilingual, multi interface office suite. It comes with functionalities like sorting and charts in Excel, e-mails in Outlook, advanced word processing, Kannada Date and Time, 'find / 'replace'; 'auto-correct' and full animation functionalities through Power Point, and most other MS Office functionals.