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 several sections cover features and techniques that are specific to Word and Office.

Typing Text in a Foreign Language

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

  • Western European languages that include characters which do not appear on the standard English (US) keyboard, but can easily be entered in several different ways

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

  • Ideographic languages such as Chinese and Korean that require the use of ...

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