Anyone familiar with current Microsoft Office proofing tools for Russian?

[Timothy Sergay]

Dear SEELANGers,

I'm running MS Office 2007, if I'm not mistaken, at work (if I am
mistaken, then we all have MS Office 2003), and I need the Russian
language proofing tools for Microsoft Word. According to Microsoft's web
pages, you should be able to click on "Buy a single-language pack now" on
this page, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA102113681033.aspx,
but the drop-down menu on the ordering page does not work. I've tried it
with Firefox Mozilla and also the latest IE, but there's never a
drop-down. I have notified Microsoft of this, but I would be terribly
surprised if that resulted in any remedy. My guess is that those packs are
either not ready for sale yet and never have been, or else that they
proved faulty soon after release and have been taken off the market
pending improvements. A very unsatisfactory situation in any case. Does
anyone know anything about this situation? If the 2007 single-language
packs are currently unavailable (I just checked Amazon.com and saw a
notice to that effect), does anyone know whether the proofing tools for MS
Office 2003 will work with Word [Office] 2007? There must be many
multi-language users who need these proofing tools. Thanks for any clues
and any shared experiences.

Tim Sergay

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