How To Change User Language Settings In SharePoint

In this article, I will discuss how to change the language settings for a particular user. There are two ways. When you create a site, you also specify the user language setting such as Time Zone, local display for numbers, dates, and time, sort order, calendar type, work week, and time format (12 or 24 hours) settings in both SharePoint On-premise and Online.

So, let’s get started. Follow the below steps -

Step 1

Open your SharePoint Site.

SharePoint
Step 2

Click on your profile icon present at the top right corner of the page.

SharePoint

Step 3

Click on “My account” option. The below screen will appear.

SharePoint

Step 4

Click on "Settings" option.

SharePoint

Step 5

Choose "Language and time zone" option.

SharePoint

Step 6

It shows English as the default language. You can change it to any language as per your requirement and click "Save".

SharePoint
SharePoint

Step 7

Once saved, the language will get changed.

SharePoint

So, the language can be changed in SharePoint per the required user.

                                                OR

We can also change the language from Site Settings menu, as described in the below steps.

Step 1

Go to your specified site and click on the gear icon i.e. "Site settings". 

SharePoint

Step 2

Click on "Language settings" under Site Administration menu.

SharePoint
Step 3

Once clicked, you will get a list of languages having checkboxes. Select the checkbox next to the alternate language you want to enable.

SharePoint

Step 4

Click the "Yes" or "No" options to enable the changes made to the user-specified text in the default language so as to automatically overwrite the existing translations in all alternate languages and then click "OK". This will change the respective language.

SharePoint
So, these were the two ways to change the site language for a particular user.

Up Next
    Ebook Download
    View all
    Learn
    View all