Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Word and Office Multilingual Features

Now that you've reviewed key Windows features that you may have to customize to work with foreign languages, the next sections cover features and techniques specific to Word and Office.

Typing Text in a Foreign Language

When it comes to entering and editing text in Word, foreign languages fall into one of three categories:

• Western European languages that include characters that do not appear on a standard English (US) keyboard

• Non-Western European languages, such as Greek, that require you to use a different keyboard layout to access the appropriate character sets

• Ideographic Asian languages that require the use of a special piece of add-on software called an Input Method Editor (IME)

Each of these categories ...