Many people have to translate email content from a foreign language into their native language. If you want you can enable automatic language translation in Outlook.com. That way, you don’t have to translate the message manually – no matter how many messages you receive or the size of the body of the email.
Suppose you have an online business and people around the world send emails in their language. If you are English speaking and don’t understand any other language, this could be a problem. There is a solution provided by Outlook, and you can use this function to translate any language into English or your native language that you understand.
The problem starts when users need to translate a lot of messages and don’t have a lot of time on hand. For such moments, you can activate the machine translation service in Outlook. For your information, you don’t need an Office 365 subscription to get this functionality.
Enable detection and automatic translation of languages in Outlook.com
To automatically translate emails in Outlook.com, follow these steps:
- Open Outlook settings
- Go to Mail> Message management
- Select the Always translate option from the Translate menu
- Save your change
To get started, visit the official Outlook email service website and sign in to your account. After that, you need to open the Outlook settings panel. To do this, click on the Adjustment equipment and click on the icon Show all Outlook settings option.
Now go from General tab for Mail tab and then click Message management option. Now scroll down until you get Translation title. After this label, select the Always translate and save your change.
You can select the language into which you want to translate the messages. Although it shows your mother tongue, it is possible to choose something else. To do this, develop the Translate the message in this language drop-down list and select something according to your needs.
There is another option called Do not translate the following languages. Sometimes you may not want to translate a specific language into English or something else. At this time, you can select this language from this list, and it is also possible to choose multiple languages.
After enabling this feature, you should receive a notification like Translated from: name of language under the subject of the email. It seems to inform you of the translation made by the automated system of Outlook.
In the case, you want to read the original message; you have to click on the View original message option.
This feature is very handy and should help you.