I'm a native English speaker living and working in Japan. I'm using English
Vista Ultimate with English Office Professional 2007. I have just downloaded
and installed the Japanese language pack for Office and I now have a whole
new set of headaches because of the insistence of the program to default
everything to Japan or Japanese. For example Office Online now always takes
me to the Japanese page and my Input Method Editor, which I used to use
before I installed the language pack to quite happily input Japanese text,
has now changed all of its menus to Japanese. In other words, I used to
click on the English words "Input Mode" in the language bar to select how I
wanted to enter Japanese text, and then chose from a list IN ENGLISH
(example: "Half-Width Katakana"). All that English is gone now and been
replaced with all Japanese. I can't configure the stupid thing because the
menus are all in Japanese. Additionally, if I just try clicking on one or
two things in a desparate attempt to get the English back, a pop-up window
appears with a big long message in Japanese, a check-box option (written in
Japanese) and a Yes, No or Cancel choice (again, all in Japanese). For all I
know, the message could be saying, "So that Office may blow-up your hard
drive, click the box. If you simply want Office to erase all your files,
uncheck the box." Goes without saying that I always cancel whatever the heck
this box is asking me and I sit in frustration wondering why I can't get the
English back.
I bought the language pack to HELP me with inputting and translating
Japanese in my documents. Having all of it written in Japanese now is
certainly no help. Anyone know how to get the ENGLISH menus back in my IME
when inputting Japanese?
One last thing (warning?) installing the Japanese language pack for Office
will add the dreaded and annoying feature of changing all of your file paths
from backslashes to the infamous yen symbol (will this idiocy never be
fixed?) So if you are used to seeing, for example, C:\User\Narakyo\Documents
it will now read as C:¥User¥Narakyo¥Documents. Wonderful! Just what I wanted
to add to my hassles.
Please, someone, post and let me know how I can have my Office Language Pack
and actually use it too. And tell me how to get rid of those stupid yen
symbols.
Cheers.
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