Furigana

[Dj_Lord]

Hello,

how to write furigana with Office 2007? I have installed Japanese language support.

Dj_Lord

[paul_b]

Dj_Lord wrote:
Hello,

how to write furigana with Office 2007? I have installed Japanese language support.

The magic words for Google are "asian layout" "phonetic guide" and "microsoft word"

http://www.haverford.edu/llc/japanese/jpcomputing.html#4

[richvh]

The magic word for Office Help is "ruby"

[Dj_Lord]

how to write furigana with Office 2007!!!?

trick you showed only works on 2k3 or older.

[tanuki]

Wasn't the magic word "please"?

[Dj_Lord]

please

[richvh]

Have you looked up "ruby" in Office Help yet? That's how I found out how to set up Word 2003 for furigana. (Ruby is the generic term for furigana.) I don't have access to Word 2007, so can't help beyond that.

[Dj_Lord]

ruby was not found in help...

[paul_b]

Dj_Lord wrote:
ruby was not found in help...

So was "asian layout" or "phonetic guide" found in help?

EDIT: In fact I know darn well that both of those _are_ in Word 2007 because by the (oh so obscure) trick of adding 2007 to the previously mentioned Google search I found this file
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM101938681033
which gives what locations in Word 2007 go with what locations in Word 2003.


　　Home | Paragraph | Asian Layout | Phonetic Guide

[Dj_Lord]

i was unable to find it. Is it possible that furigana was removed from 2007 office? By the way, I use English one.

[richvh]

Look at this page.

[Dj_Lord]

I read that article, I can type kanji, but furigana is something mysterious...

[richvh]

Well, do you have Phonetic Guide as a choice in the Asian Layout submenu of the Paragraph submenu of the Home menu? That's what you need to use to enter furigana.

[Mike Cash]

How is it in the Japanese (or English, even) version of Open Office? I have both, but since I have very little occasion to actually compose anything at all, let alone something requiring furigana, I have never looked into it.

[richvh]

From the Open Office Help:

Asian Phonetic Guide
Allows you to add comments above Asian characters to serve as a pronunciation guide.
These commands can only be accessed after you enable support for Asian languages in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages.
To access this command...
Menu Format - Asian phonetic guide

1.Select one or more words in the document.
2.Choose Format - Asian Phonetic Guide.
3.Enter the text that you want to use as a pronunciation guide in the Ruby text box.