Word features for East Asian languages

The features described in this Help topic are only available if support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

In addition, you may need to install the Microsoft Office XP Proofing Tools to use some features. Proofing Tools is available at Shop.microsoft.com, or outside the United States from a licensed reseller. For more information about Proofing Tools, visit the Microsoft Office Web site.

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Editing text in any East Asian language

You can do any of the following:

• Use an Input Method Editor (IME) to enter text in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.
• Specify whether to use a line grid or line and character grid to control formatting and what measurements are used for the grid so that you can enter characters by using fixed-pitch spacing (as in Genko or Gaozhi formatting).
• Show or hide the document grid.
• Automatically adjust the right indent to fit the document grid and snap paragraphs to the document grid (if it's defined). Also set the paragraph alignment to distribute text.
• Make characters snap to the document grid (if it's turned on).
• Change the direction of text in the main text area of a document. Requires Microsoft Windows 2000, or an Asian version of Microsoft Windows.
• Fit text to a specified width (kintowaritsuke, Zhei-Shih-Wen-Zhi, Tiao-Zheng-Kuan-Du, Text jadongmatchum).
• Set options for layout of East Asian text, such as phonetic guides (furigana, Ju-Yin-Biao-Shih, Pin-Yin-Zhi-Nan, Witjudalgi), enclosure characters (kakoimoji, Wei-Zhou-Zhi-Yuan, Dai-Quan-Zi-Fu, WonmunJa), mixing horizontal and vertical text (tatechuyoko, Hwen-Ho, Zong-Heng-Hun-Pai, Munja Banghyang Bakkugi), combined characters (kumimoji, Ju-Pai-Wen-Zhi, He-Bing-Zi-Fu, Chaewosseugi), and two lines in one (warichu, Bin-Lie-Wen-Zhi, Shuang-Hang-He-Yi, Dujuleul hanjul nopiro).
• Switch between half-width characters (hangaku, Ban-Shin, Ban-Jiao, Banja) and full-width characters (zenkaku, Chuan-Shin, Quan-Jiao, Jeonja).
• View formatting buttons specific to East Asian languages on an extended Formatting toolbar.
• Have Microsoft Word automatically use additional East Asian text settings to format text as you type (depends on the language of the text).
• Set East Asian typography options for kerning, character spacing, line breaks, first and last characters you can prevent from appearing at the start and end of lines of text, and whether to save these settings in the Normal template.
• Use various fonts to display Asian text.
• Specify separate fonts for Asian and Latin text and set emphasis marks. (Additional fonts for Asian text are available in the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.)
• Choose a date format used in a particular language. Choose the type of calendar used to calculate dates. Use full-width Latin text characters when inserting dates.
• Create a booklet by setting the book fold; setting the gutter at the left or top of the document (default is left); and setting the document to print two full-scale pages on one sheet of paper.
• Scale documents to fit different paper sizes (such as A4 or B5).
• Show or hide paragraph marks independently of nonprinting characters.
• Summarize text automatically (not available for all languages). Requires files available in the Microsoft Office XP Proofing Tools.
• Have Word automatically detect the language of text you type. Individual languages must be enabled for editing.
• Sort a list or table according to the rules of another language.
• Check spelling and grammar according to the rules of another language, or look up words in the thesaurus of another language. May require files available in the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools. 
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• Hyphenate text in another language. May require files available in the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.
• Automatically correct text typed in another language. May require files available in the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.
• Create vertical mailing labels.

Editing Chinese text

You can do any of the following:

• Convert Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese and vice-versa. A non-Chinese version of Microsoft Word requires files available in Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.
• Choose a type of number to insert, including many different Chinese number characters.
• Create envelopes by using a wizard. Requires Simplified Chinese Word or the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.
• Print on both sides of the paper (duplex printing) on printers that don't support it.
• When creating an index or table of contents, set the language, sort method, and format.
• Apply phonetic guides with tone marks. Requires the Simplified Chinese IME 2000 or later.
• Check Chinese ideographic character usage as part of a grammar check.
• Add custom terms to the user-defined dictionary of an Input Method Editor (IME). Requires the Simplified Chinese IME 2000 or later.
• Input extended Chinese characters.

Editing Korean text

• Use the Hanja dictionary, enter Hanja using radicals (boosoo), and convert selected text between Hangul and Hanja. In a non-Korean version of Microsoft Word, requires files available in the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.
• Set options for converting between Hangul and Hanja in a document.
• When you use a Korean Input Method Editor (IME), automatically correct words entered in English and Hangul modes. In a non-Korean version of Word, requires IME files available in the Microsoft Office Proofing Tools.
• When finding and replacing text, revise Hangul endings.
• If you are familiar with AreA Hangul (HNC), use the HWP Help file. Requires the Korean language version of Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office.
• Use the Korean grammar checker.

Editing Japanese text

• Set options for the Japanese Input Method Editor (IME).
• Add new words to the IME dictionary and choose an IME custom dictionary.
• Reconvert incorrectly converted Japanese text that has already been entered into the document back into phonetic kana, and begin conversion again. Requires the Japanese IME 98 or later.
• Check Japanese text for consistency of phonetic spelling and ideographic character usage. (You can also use the Japanese Background Grammar checker).
• When finding and replacing text, find text that sounds like Japanese and set specific character matching options.
• Set options to broaden or narrow the search for text in a document by treating some punctuation characters as identical.
• Switch between hiragana and katakana characters.
• When creating an index or table of contents, set the yomi (reading) fields.
• Work in Japanese Genko mode. May require the Japanese language version of Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office.
• If you are familiar with Ichitaro (JustSystems), use the Ichitaro Help file. Requires the Japanese language version of Word or Office.
• Create a Japanese letter.