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Installing Japanese Kana-Kanji Conversion Editor (IME)
To install Japanese Kana-Kanji Converting (IME), follow these steps:
For Windows 7
- Click [Start], and select [Control Panel].
- Click the [Change keyboards or other input methods] in the [Clock, Language, and Region].
[Keyboards and Language] of the [Regional and Language] dialog box appears.
- Click the [Change keyboards] in the [Keyboards and other input languages].
[Text Services and Input Languages] dialog box appears.
- Click the [Add] in the [Installed services].
- Check [Japanese(Japan)] - [Keyboard] - [Microsoft IME] in the language list and click [OK].
For Windows Vista
- Click [Start] , and select [Control Panel].
- Click the [Clock, Language, and Region].
- Click the [Regional and Language Options]. The [Regional and Language Options] dialog box appears.
- Click the [Change keyboards] in the [Keyboards and Languages] tab.
- Click [Installed services] - [Add].
- Check [Japanese(Japan)] - [Keyboard] - [Microsoft IME] in the language list and click [OK].
For Windows XP
- Click [Start], and then select [Control Panel].
- Click the [Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options].
- Click the [Regional and Language Options]. [Regional and Language Options] dialog appears.
- Confirm that the [Language] tab is set to as follows:
Click the [Details] and set each option as follows, then click the [OK].
- Click the [Add] on [Installed services], then select [Japanese] on [Input language], [Microsoft IME Standard 2002] on [Keyboard layout/IME], then click the [OK].
- Select [Japanese Input System (Japanese - Microsoft IME Standard 2002)] on [Default input language].
- Click the [OK]. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
In Windows 2000
- Click the [Start], then select [Control Panel] from the [Settings] menu.
- Click the [Keyboard].
- Select the [Input Locales] tab, and click the [Add] from the [Installed input locales]. The [Add Input Locale] dialog box appears.
- Select [Japanese] from [Input locale], and [Japanese Input System (MSIME2000)] from [Keyboard layout/IME], and click the [OK].
- Select [Japanese] from [Input language] in [Installed input locales], then click the [Set as Default]. A check mark appears next to [Japanese] under [Input language].
- Click the [Properties]. Specify the settings as required.
- Click the [OK]. The [keyboard Properties] dialog box appears.
- Click the [OK].
- Restart Windows 2000. [Microsoft IME 2000(Japanese)] appears in the task tray after starting Windows 2000, enabling you to enter Japanese. At this time, set [Font] to a Japanese font such as [MS Gothic].