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1. #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2016 LANGUAGE PACK JAPANESE INSTALL#
2. #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2016 LANGUAGE PACK JAPANESE PC#
3. #MICROSOFT OFFICE 2016 LANGUAGE PACK JAPANESE WINDOWS#

The main advantage of this is that you can switch conversion modes (you can set the IME to bias for names or speech) easily or use the IME Pad (to draw kanji that you don’t know the pronunciation of) Clicking the kana button will enable you to use those awesome kana keys. Then you’ll have this lovely toolbar to play around with: You can also un-dock it as well by right-clicking the JP or EN icon and selecting Restore the Language bar. You should see this down in the lower right of your screen hanging out with all your tray icons.

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And Windows might prompt you for your installation disc, or simply just ask you to log out and back in again depending on your setup.Īnd then, finally, after all that mambo jumbo, you should have a shiny new language bar: Then click the OK button on the Region and Language menu. After doing that, go ahead and click the OK button. This will take you back to the Text Services and Input Languages menu, where you can confirm that you’ve installed the Japanese (Japan) – Microsoft IME keyboard. It’ll just clutter up your language bar.Īfter you’ve done that click OK.

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So, to avoid confusion, don’t install it. The Japanese keyboard only allows you to type in a kana, which as I said before is what older people in Japan use. Scroll down and find the Japanese (Japan) options, open it up by clicking the + sign and select Microsoft IME. You can use the IME to type in both Japanese or English as we will see in a bit, so this is a good option to remember.Īfter you press the Add… button, you should see this Add Input Language menu.

If you become really comfortable using the Japanese Microsoft IME keyboard, you can set it here as your default so that you don’t have to keep switching to it after you boot up your PC. I personally use all of these on a daily basis and highly recommend them.Īnyway, for this menu click the Add… button.īy the way, this is also where you can set the default input language. In case you were wondering it is a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, and I highly recommend it if you are going to be doing a lot of typing. Yes, even if you have a physical Japanese keyboard you will still want to setup the Microsoft IME.

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My PC has it installed already because I have a physical Japanese keyboard (that actually has built in shortcut keys for the Microsoft IME) and so when I installed Windows on this machine it just automatically installed the Japanese keyboard along with the Microsoft IME as the default keyboard. The big difference will be that yours will probably not have the Japanese keyboard already installed. Then, you should see something like the following Text Services and Input Languages menu.

You should then see something like the Region and Language menu below. Under Clock, Language, and Region, click on Change keyboards or other input methods Installing the Japanese Microsoft IME on Windows 7Ĭlick on the start button (that glossy windows thing in the lower left corner of your screen) and open up the control panel. It is quite simple to set up and use actually. This is actually a little freebie that has been thrown into Windows. Nowadays, you have this handy thing called the IME that does some crazy voodoo magic to allow you to type pretty easily in Japanese. As a matter of fact Japanese keyboards still have kana printed on them, but only older people use them anymore. Before the dawn of Windows, people who wanted to type in Japanese had to type with a kana keyboard. So it only makes sense that if you are practicing a language, you should be able to type in that language as well, right? These days you have it pretty easy.

Can you even imagine how much typing you do on a daily basis? Between Facebook, Twitter and email, your little fingers are probably quite busy typing away on the average day. Typing has become such a critical part of our lives.