Switch between half-width and full-width Japanese characters

Microsoft Office Word 2003

Switch between half-width and full-width Japanese characters

The feature described in this Help topic is only available if support for Japanese is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

  1. Select the text that you want to change to half-width or full-width characters.
  2. On the Format menu click Change Case.
  3. Click Half-width to change to half-width characters, or Full-width to change to full-width characters.

Note  You can change only Latin letters, numbers, and katakana to half-width characters. However, you can change hiragana to half-width katakana characters. To do this, first change the hiragana to katakana, and then change the katakana to half-width characters.