How to Change your Language in Sharepoint Online

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Changing your language in SharePoint Online is a 12-step process to change your profile language, with a long wait.

1. In your personal menu, click on My Profile
2. Click on Update Profile under your name
3. Scroll down to "How can I change language and regional settings?" and click on it
4. Click on the word "here"
5. click on the ellipsis (...) and then choose Language and Region
6. Under Language/Language Preference/My Display Languages, delete the current language
7. Click on Pick a new language and select the new language
8. Note: there are lots of different versions of the language.  It doesn't matter which one you pick, with the exception of Portuguese and Chinese, where it does matter
9. Click on Add
10. Scroll to the bottom, and click "Save all and close"
11. Wait about 10 to 15 minutes.  It's hard to tell how long you have to wait for it to take effect
12. Parts of the page, like Hub navigation and personal and site menus will be in the right language when you come back tomorrow

Changing your language with SharePoint Online with PointFire 365 is a fast process

1. In your personal menu, click on Language and on the selected language
2. There is no step 2, you were done on step 1; your page is completely in the new language right away

This works on modern SharePoint sites and classic SharePoint sites, and you can easily build multilingual Commucation sites.

With PointFire, all your users and content are on the same site. Two different users going to the same URL will each see it in their own language. It works with every version of SharePoint Online and of SharePoint on premise, with optional machine translation.

Find out why bilingual governments, multinational corporations, and international organizations use PointFire for their SharePoint sites, on premise and in Office 365. Download the unlimited trial.