HELP - Installed English version of Office 2007 onto Spanish laptop and it won't show in English!!!

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Our laptop, which we brought from Spain when we moved to the UK, had the trial version of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 in Spanish on it. This had expired. Recently I bought the software in English and installed it. It's working, but in Spanish.
I can't find a way to make the programmes run in English - menus, toolbars etc.

Have tried all the obvious things - have a feeling that the OS (Vista) needs to be changed from Spanish into English before it will 'recognise' that the software is in English.

Can anyone help please?

have you gone into start, programs, mcrosoft office, office tools, language settings?

Thanks,
Yes, have tried all that. It only resets the keyboard keys. I think we need to reset the Vista or XP language but dont know how to....

I mean one of the things it does is the keyboard, apart from that none of the other options makes a difference

Have you done it through the control panel? I have windows 7, but Vista will be similar, XP might call it something else. Anyway, I can see 'clock, language and region' as an option. The other thing you are doing may well be getting overridden by the laptop's settings. A laptop is a laptop, it is the settings that make it Spanish!

But having googled a wee bit I see Marvellous Microsoft might not be making it as easy as that! look at windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/How-do-I-get-additional-language-files and then probably this www.microsoft.com/unlimitedpotential/programs/llp.mspx - good luck!

cheeseytoastie - thanks, had my hopes up for a minute there but am afraid we've already been to both those links and as you say they aren't making it easy...
My options seem to be

1. Spend money on a 'solution' from Microsoft
2. Buy another laptop and have the luxury of one in Spanish and one in English
3. Put up with it...

Probably be number 3 since we have no spare cash for the foreseable future...

Thanks for your help anyway!