{"id":9067,"date":"2009-08-28T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/google-docs-now-translates-into-42-languages\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:43","slug":"google-docs-now-translates-into-42-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-docs-now-translates-into-42-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Docs now translates into 42 languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Languages are a source of culture and knowledge, but can also set up unwanted barriers between people. Google is well aware of this issue, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;ve been offering online translation services for a while now &#8211; one of the best ones I&#8217;ve tried so far, even if it&#8217;s only an automatic translation. With such a great translating technology already at hand,\u00a0 implementing it with other Google tools was only a matter of time.<\/p>\n<p>Today Google has added <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/translate-documents-sharing-across.html\">translation capabilities to Google Docs<\/a>. Using it is too easy: after writing your text, go to Tools &gt; Translate document and pick the target language. There are 42 languages to choose from &#8211; namely all the language supported by Google translating technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/google-docs-translate-01.jpg\" alt=\"Google Docs now translates into 42 languages\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google Docs will automatically detect the source language and offer the selected translation in a new tab. You can then choose between replacing the original document with the translation or saving it as a new file. In either case, the page&#8217;s design and layout is preserved, so the final document will look the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/google-docs-translate-02.jpg\" alt=\"Google Docs now translates into 42 languages\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Languages are a source of culture and knowledge, but can also set up unwanted barriers between people. Google is well aware of this issue, and that&#8217;s why they&#8217;ve been offering online translation services for a while now &#8211; one of the best ones I&#8217;ve tried so far, even if it&#8217;s only an automatic translation. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-docs-now-translates-into-42-languages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Docs now translates into 42 languages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2608],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-docs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335398,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions\/335398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}