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NanoNet
NanoNet

Reputation: 324

Changing Default Teams Sharepoint Site Language

Someone invited me to a Teams site, my site page however is in Spanish. When I click to view in Sharepoint all the buttons, links, and similar controls (or widgets) are in Spanish. Oddly enough the folders, and file contents are in English.

I checked the default language of my PC, Teams Application, and Sharepoint site and all seem to indicate that it is supposed to default to English, even as a preference. For the life of me I don't know why all the controls remain in Spanish.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 1135

Answers (1)

Martin Laplante
Martin Laplante

Reputation: 54

Different parts of Teams are governed by different settings. If you are viewing Teams with the Teams desktop app and not the browser, the interface of Teams itself is determined by the app language settings. However the language of most, not all, of the SharePoint UI elements within Teams depends on a variety of SharePoint settings and setup. Teams sites are typically created with one base language and 49 alternate languages. It is possible to delete any or all of the alternate languages if you don't want to support them. Which language the SharePoint UI will be in will depend on the languages in your SharePoint profile. If that is blank or doesn't match the base or alternate languages, it depends on your browser language settings. If there is not match there either, it will be in the base language.

Of course if nobody localized the column names, those column headers will be in the base language of the site no matter what the other settings say.

Dates, on the other hand, can depend on the user's locale settings, not their language settings and, unlike UI language, there is another setting to determine if your locale or the site's is used, and force dates and currency to be displayed in the site's locale, vs. the user's locale.

More details here https://blog.icefire.ca/blogs/teams-localization/

Upvotes: 0

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