Convert chinese characters to pinyin microsoft word 2010

Dummy Menu. Chinese Tools. Cantonese Tools. English Tools. Educational websites. Find out more here: Benefits of premium This will close in 20 seconds Windows is supposed to be able to distinguish a Hanzi as Trad Chinese, Simp Chinese and Japanese, but in reality it can't. So you have to tell them. Again, try to set the Chinese characters as "Japanese" and see what you get in the phonetics conversion. K: well, I type in TradChars, and the function gives me only bopomofo.

I can type or paste my own pinyin in its stead, through the ruby text boxes, but this is manual labor. Following Pazu's instructions, I go to Word's Formatting menu and there is no "reveal formatting" option. Any advice? Thanks in advance! I'm using traditional script, I think Yes, I did that and now there's nothing.

It's completly blank, no bopomofo or pinyin. You must use a font which also include Pinyin , i. But I tried several more times, and finally tried the format with 'reset default' values, then did it all one more time before it finally worked. Very quirky, but it worked. So I tried again with a new document and new text, selected PRC Chinese, did the format step and it worked smoothly.

Lesson to share with others: It may not work smoothly if you've already done the "Format", "Asian Layout", then "Phonetic guide" with a Language-Taiwan Chinese setting; but that doesn't mean it can't work; just start over.

So NNT is right: you need to select the text, then change its language to the correct one PRC if you want pinyin, or Taiwan if you want bopomofo , which does not affect whether the text is simplified or trad itional characters talk about bad design!!! I'm not sure that I am doing things correctly. I am running the newest version of Windows XP for Tablet edition pretty cool to write characters by hand on the screen for when I don't know a character and don't have a dictionary handy, but that's another story I have the Chinese language packs installed.

I also have the Chinese transcriber addition for SP2. I have a very small handful of Chinese fonts, so I feel that chinese is fairly well supported. It says that I am allowed to enter the information myself, but I don't think that was what I had intended. I tried changing language to whatever I had available. I tried changing the fonts back and forth from asian fonts to non-asian fonts, which weren't accepted, but I thought it might give it a bit more kick if it had to do it itself.

I tried and retried. I closed and re-opened Word. I use MS Office word Professional running on my own and my sister's computer here in my house. With SP2 sure, it got me my multi-language support, but more than doubled my boot time - great peice of work I have tried all combinations of fonts, languages and keyboards, including entering text using the pinyin, writing by hand on screen, writing in zhuyin I am getting pretty darned frustrated.

To be honest, I would actually like to start doing some more advanced writing practice in copying articles by hand the main reason I chose to buy a tablet, handwriting recognition is little short of awesome and I have the kind of penmanship that would be worthy of a blind three year old who had drunk a few too many kahlua mudslides. If you don't have any ideas, anyone know who I could email at Microsoft to help me figure it out?

Kentsuarez, you said that you finally tried the format with 'reset default' values and it worked. We have encountered this problem repeatedly at my company, and rest assured - it is a bug. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Rachelle Gra Microsoft Agent. Hi Lenny, Microsoft Word allows you to translate a text to a different language using the Translate feature.