Office 2008 is Unicode-savvy for the Basic Multilingual Plane, OS X 10.4.9 and above. Comprised of three primary applications, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Two Chinese fonts are installed during the standard installation: SimSun.ttf and PMingLiU.ttf. They may appear in the Font menu as 宋体 and 新細明體.
To activate the advanced East Asian features in Office 2008 applications, you must use the Microsoft Language Register (in the Additional Tools folder). Choose Japanese in the pop-up menu that appears. Features available in the Format menu in Word include phonetic guides (ruby/furigana text), combined characters, enclosed characters. Support for changes in text direction (i.e., vertical text) is available in both the Format menu and the Formatting Palette. Chinese can be used for numbered lists, page numbers, footnote/endnote numbers, and so on. These features are designed for Japanese, but they also work well for Chinese and Korean.
Note: to type Chinese, you cannot type in Powerpoint when using Open Vanilla. You can only use system typing methods and Yahoo! KeyKey.
To activate the advanced East Asian features in Office 2008 applications, you must use the Microsoft Language Register (in the Additional Tools folder). Choose Japanese in the pop-up menu that appears. Features available in the Format menu in Word include phonetic guides (ruby/furigana text), combined characters, enclosed characters. Support for changes in text direction (i.e., vertical text) is available in both the Format menu and the Formatting Palette. Chinese can be used for numbered lists, page numbers, footnote/endnote numbers, and so on. These features are designed for Japanese, but they also work well for Chinese and Korean.
Note: to type Chinese, you cannot type in Powerpoint when using Open Vanilla. You can only use system typing methods and Yahoo! KeyKey.