Why is my Outlook half in English and half in French? Solved

Question

Hello,

I have a problem with Outlook 2003.

Configuration:

Recent HP PC: 3 GHz CPU / 512 RAM / 80 GB HDD / Windows XP Pro / Office 2003 Small Business (Outlook / PowerPoint / Publisher / Word / Excel).

Problem:

When I create a new profile in Outlook 2003 everything goes well. I configure my account to connect to my internal mail server: no problem.

However, when I open Outlook I find the "Courier" layout on the right where half of the folders have English names: Inbox becomes in-box, Sent Items = Sent Item, and Outbox = Outbox. The same is true on the home page of the mailbox.

The strangest thing is that the rest is in French like "dossier d'archivage" written in French and the menus are also in French. Strange... A little bug from Microsoft?
One more point to clarify, I have an admin account and another user account on the machine and the interface is fully in French.

Also strange, I had the same problem on another computer the same day. And I have no solution to revert everything to French.

Can you please help me?
Thanks in advance to those who will take a little of their time on this problem.

++Configuration: XP Pro / Office 2003 Small Business

gaelpog1 · Accepted Answer

Hello,

you need to run Start/Run (or Windows key + R)
In the dialogue box, type
```
outlook.exe /resetfoldernames
```
And it should work.

If that doesn't work: right-click on the search engine at the top left corner at the bottom of the Outlook calendar and click on translate to French (thanks nino34130)

@++ and thanks again Sly One.

marty · Answer

Hi PoOG,

I have the same phenomenon except that it depends on the profile and not on the account because I have tried several messaging profiles, some are in French and others in English on the same computer.

The same phenomenon on another computer with the same messaging accounts.

However, I don't have any solutions. If you have received an answer or if you have found a solution, I would appreciate it.

Bye

Thank you :)

Yoyodepornic · Answer

Hello,

I came across your discussion while searching for a solution to the same problem.
I have done the manipulation several times: Run/ outlook.exe /resetfoldernames
But nothing changes. My calendar still shows the days and months in English.
Everything else is in French without any issue.

I am using XP Pro and Office Pro 2003.

If you have any other solution since then... Thank you

Kazgaroth · Answer

Hello everyone!

I also had the problem of Outlook being partly in French and partly in English (Outlook 2007 in English version and XP sp2 in French).
My primary goal was to switch Outlook to 100% in English. I think most of those reading this post will be looking to do the opposite ;)

Before seeing this topic, I changed the regional settings of Windows to everything in English (watch out, the keyboard set to QWERTY and all).

As that was not enough, I tried the solution described above:
1-close Outlook
2-Run > outlook /resetfoldernames
3-open Outlook

Result: it works: everything is in English in Outlook!

So for those still looking for an answer, I suggest checking the regional settings, setting everything to the desired language, and then running the command to start Outlook.

Sincerely,

titpat · Answer

Hello
Nothing could be simpler to set Outlook in French.

Open Outlook
Click on settings (small gear icon)
options
Outlook customization
language click French save at the bottom of the page and there you go.

Why is my Outlook half in English and half in French?

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