When will Office 2003 Japanese IME be available?

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Susan - 18 Aug 2004 18:02 GMT

I've been needing to do my Japanese homework and I've
always had the tendency to do it on the computer with
Office XP, using the global IME for it. Well, since I've
upgraded to Office 2003, I've searched and searched and
cannot find an IME for Office 2003. I'm desperately
needing this, considering I don't want to downgrade back
to Office XP. Does anyone have any ideas as to if this
is even in the works or maybe another known program I can
use to do my homework?

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Trey A. - 30 Aug 2004 05:55 GMT

I have a perfect solution for you. This is def your lucky
day. Go to "control panel" on your start menu.
Choose "date, time, langguage, and reginal oprions." Then
go to "add other languages." And click on "install files
for east asian languages." Then go to where it
says, "details." After all this I think you should be
able to figure it out on your own. You should be able to
install what you need there. Microsoft doesnt have a
downloadable version of Japanese IME for office 2003
because its already included for you to install in the
first place. Hope you are going to read this advice and
get your IME for your comp. Best of luck with this as
well as your Japanese HW. I am out.

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mick - 01 Feb 2005 11:29 GMT

doing all that merely allows you to read east asian langauges. it certainly
doesn't include the ime and clicking on details doesn't lead you anywhere
that can find an office 2003 ime either. PLEASE reply with additional help.

thanks

> I have a perfect solution for you. This is def your lucky
> day. Go to "control panel" on your start menu.
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> >use to do my homework?
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Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS] - 01 Feb 2005 15:48 GMT

You are mistakem. The UI that Trey refers to adds an IME. It is use to add
keyboards, as well.

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> doing all that merely allows you to read east asian langauges. it certainly
> doesn't include the ime and clicking on details doesn't lead you anywhere
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> > >use to do my homework?
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tenthwave - 11 Feb 2005 16:05 GMT

I have Susan's problem
I have been using the Japanese Global IME for years
(type English letters... convert to characters)
I just reloaded Windows XP with SP2 and Office XP professional. I have spent
hours trying different combinations of all of this advice to reload the IME.
I have downloaded imejpn.exe... installed it... I even saw it once but the
English characters would not convert.

Somehow it is connected to Speech Input (cryptic references to "enable"
speech. There is also massive confusion in the Knowledge Base between the old
operating systems and XP SP2. I do NOT have a Japanese operating system. I do
NOT have a Japanese keyboard. I just want my trusty old type and convert.

There is some small corner of operating system phase space where this works.
I know it is true. I have another machine running XP SP2 and Office 2003
where it does. I just don't remember how I got there.

all advice appreciated.

> I've been needing to do my Japanese homework and I've
> always had the tendency to do it on the computer with
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> is even in the works or maybe another known program I can
> use to do my homework?

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