Change language settings SharePoint online

Here I am explaining, how to change language setting for a user. When you create a site, you also specify user language setting such as Time Zone, locale display for numbers, dates, and time, sort order, calendar type, work week, and time format (12 or 24 hour) settings in both SharePoint On-premise and Online.

Change language settings SharePoint online

Step-1: In your web browser, open your SharePoint site.

change language settings sharepoint online
change language settings sharepoint online

Step2: In right side, Go to My Account and click on View Account option.

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Step3: Click on Setting Tab on left menu.

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change language settings sharepoint online

Step4: Then Click on Language and time zone option.

how to change language settings sharepoint online
how to change language settings sharepoint online

Step5: By Default, English (India) is showing in dropdown menu so we can able to change the language setting here.

sharepoint online change default language
sharepoint online change default language

Step6: Now I am changing the language English to Sestina and change the Time zone after that click on OK button.

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change office 365 language to english

Step7: Now you can see, The Language setting got changed.

SharePoint online change default language
SharePoint online change default language

These are the steps to change Language setting in SharePoint online.

SharePoint Online Change Language Settins in Site Setting page

You can also change the Site Collection Language setting under Site setting page.

Path: Site Collection-> Site settings ->Language Settings – >Select the checkbox next to the alternate languages you want to enable-> Click the Yes or No option to enable the changes made to the user-specified text in the default language to automatically overwrite the existing translations make in all alternate languages -> Click OK.

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