Word features for East Asian languages

You can use the following features to view, write, and edit text in East Asian languages.

Important

To complete this procedure, you must first turn on Chinese or Japanese language features. For more information, see Turn on Chinese language features or Turn on Japanese language features.

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Specify whether to use a line grid, or a line and character grid, to control formatting, and what measurements are used for the grid so that you can enter characters by using fixed-pitch spacing (as in Genko or Gaozhi formatting).

Set the number of characters per line for East Asian text

Show or hide the document grid.

On the View menu, click Gridlines.

Automatically adjust right indent to fit the document grid and snap paragraphs to the document grid (if it's defined). Also set the paragraph alignment to distribute text.

On the Format menu, click Paragraph, click the Indents and Spacing tab, and then select the Automatically adjust right indent when document grid is defined check box.

Make characters snap to the document grid (if it's turned on).

On the Format menu, click Paragraph, click the Indents and Spacing tab, and then select the Snap to grid when document grid is defined check box.

Change the direction of text in the main text area of a document.

On the Layout tab, under Text Layout, click Direction.

Fit text to a specified width.

On the Home tab, under Paragraph, click Home tab, Paragraph group, Asian Layout (JPN), and then click Fit Text.

Set options for layout of East Asian text, such as adding phonetic guides, mixing horizontal and vertical text, and combining characters.

Add phonetic guides to East Asian text

Combine characters for East Asian text

Switch between half-width and full-width characters.

Switch between half-width and full-width East Asian characters

Have Word automatically use additional East Asian text settings to format text as you type.

AutoFormat options for East Asian text

Set East Asian typography options for kerning and character spacing, prevent first and last characters from appearing at the start and end of lines of text, and choose whether to save these settings in the Normal template.

On the Word menu, click Preferences, and then, under Chinese Editing Preferences, click Chinese Typography.

On the Word menu, click Preferences, and then, under Japanese Editing Preferences, click Japanese Typography.

Set typography options for line breaks and character spacing.

Adjust line break control settings for East Asian text

Adjust East Asian character spacing

Specify separate fonts for Asian and Latin text and set emphasis marks.

On the Format menu, click Font, and then click the Font tab.

Set the gutter at the left or the top of the document and set the document to print two full-scale pages on one sheet of paper to make booklets.

Print two pages per sheet for East Asian text

Sort a list or table according to the rules of another language.

Sort according to the rules of another language

Compress two lines in one for East Asian text.

Compress two lines in one for East Asian text