■ Translating Content on the Fly

Tip When you’re setting up meetings for the first time, remember that different team members might be in different time zones. If team members have set the time in Office 365 to accurately reflect their local time, the Office 365 Calendar should take the time difference into account when you set up the appointment. But if the team member hasn’t set the local time, you might need to be extra careful when you set up those meetings to ensure that everyone logs in at the right time.

When you work with colleagues who might be located anywhere on the planet, you might encounter language issues now and again. It’s one of the realities of the global marketplace—translation tools are a feature you really do need in your cloud computing toolkit. Translation tools are actually part of Office 2010—in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—and you’ll be able to use them in Office 365 with teammates near and far. Using the translation features, you can easily translate words and phrases as you work on documents or converse with colleagues anywhere in the world. For example, when you open a Word document in Office 365, click Edit in Word. The file opens in the familiar Word 2010 interface. You can then turn on the Mini Translator tool by clicking the Review tab and clicking Translate in the Language group. Click Choose Translation Language, click the Translation To arrow, and choose the language you want to use from the list. Click OK, and click Translate once again; this time click Mini Translator to turn the feature on. (See Figure 4-6.) Now you can highlight a word or phrase while you work and the Mini Translator tool will show you the translation in real time (and even pronounce it for you if you click Play). Nice!