About creating a Simplified Chinese document

To work with Simplified Chinese text in documents, make sure you do the following:

• Set up system support for Simplified Chinese.
• Enable Simplified Chinese for editing in Microsoft Office.
• Obtain a Simplified Chinese Input Method Editor (IME) so that you can type Simplified Chinese text.

Microsoft Word has built-in features that help you work with Simplified Chinese text, such as support for vertical text editing and the fonts SimSun and Arial Unicode MS. For additional functionality, such as additional fonts, you can purchase Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools.

Learn about other Word features for Simplified Chinese.