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Macintosh: Format menu > Phonetic Guide.Highlight the characters in your document that you want to add the phonetic guide to.Set the language to Japanese and click OK.Double-click the program Microsoft Language Register.Open the folder Applications > Microsoft Office 2008 > Additional Tools > Microsoft Language Register.You can use the same procedure above to re-register the program as English to undo this change if this is annoying to you.
#OPEN DICTIONARY IN NEW MICROSOFT WORD FOR MAC MAC#
Note: doing this in Office 2004 on the Mac produces the side-effect that some dialogue boxes (such as the Print dialogue) will be in Japanese.
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The Windows version of the tool even auto loads the default kana text for the characters you've selected. This is the ability to add furigana (aka okurigana, aka ruby) to typed Japanese text, just like in textbooks and newspapers. writing ミリ so that it is smaller and taking up one character space rather than two). a character with a circle or triangle around it), or to combine characters into one character space (e.g. Go to Format > Text Direction and you will see that the dialog box demonstrates a new option for vertically written Asian text.Īdditional Japanese features include the ability to create custom enclosed characters (e.g.

Once you've registered Word as a Japanese application, you can also type vertically. Be sure to read through everything to maximize your Japanese typing efficiency! Additional Tools in MS Word Some of the information is applicable to both Macintosh and Windows computers (and also Japanese word processors), and the rest of it is platform-specific. Here are a few that should make it easier for you to work on a computer in Japanese. Typing Japanese can be mendokusai if you don't know all the tricks.

Additional Tools in MS Word | Windows-specific Settings | Macintosh-specific Settings
