About working with Traditional Chinese text
In addition to proofing tools such as the grammar and style checker and AutoCorrect list, Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools provides tools designed specifically for working with Traditional Chinese text.
Traditional Chinese Input Method Editor (IME)
By using the Traditional Chinese Input Method Editor (IME), which is available on the Language bar, you can enter Traditional Chinese text in Office documents. You can also specify how you want to enter that text.
Enter Traditional Chinese text
- Enable editing for Traditional Chinese.
- On the Language bar, make sure the language indicator shows Chinese (Taiwan). If it does not, click the language indicator, and then click Chinese (Taiwan).
- Place the insertion point where you want to enter Traditional Chinese text.
- On the Language bar, click Tools, and then select the input options you want.
If you select the keyboard or soft keyboard option, your text appears in a reading window. If you select the IME pad, your text appears directly in the document.
- Enter the text.
- If you are using the keyboard or the soft keyboard, specify whether to add the text to the document by doing one of the following:
- If the text is correct, press ENTER.
- If the text is incorrect and you know that there is more than one candidate for the characters that you're typing, press the DOWN ARROW key to display a list of candidates. To select the candidate you want, press SPACEBAR, and then press ENTER.
For more information about using the Traditional Chinese IME, see Help for that IME.
Text converter
By using the text converter tool, you can convert text from Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese or from Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese. This tool is available only in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
- Enable editing for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
- If you want to convert only specific text, select the text.
- On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Chinese Translation.
- Under Translation direction, click the option you want.
- If you are converting text to Traditional Chinese and you want to specify whether to use character variants, select or clear the Use Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR, and Macao SAR character variants check box. Some traditional characters are variants that are not regarded as standard glyphs.
- If you want to specify whether to convert common terms at a word level, such as the word “computer,” select or clear the Translate common terms check box.