To add the East Asian fonts, you need to install the East Asian language. Installing the East Asian language does not necessarily change the default language you use with Windows; it simply adds the East Asian language as an additional language and downloads the related fonts.

Use the Add a language feature to install another language for Windows 11 to view menus, dialog boxes, and supported apps and websites in that language. To do this: Select Start > Settings > Time & language > Language & region. Go to Preferred languages, select Add a language.

Remove languages and fonts you don't use. Right-to-left language features. Change the display or editing language for your documents in Microsoft Office.

Click the Word menu, or the menu for the Microsoft 365 application you opened, and then select Preferences. Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click East Asian Languages. Select Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese.

To reduce disk space requirements in Windows 10 and improve installation time, language packs have been split into language components and Features on Demand v2 (Capabilities). Language components include the user interface text for that language and basic Cortana capabilities.

In this article we'll talk about how to install those fonts so you can use them in Microsoft Office. Note: To embed fonts in a Microsoft Office Word document or PowerPoint presentation, see Embedding fonts on the PPTools site.

The ink recognition capabilities in Ink Editor for Word and Ink to Text for PowerPoint support many languages for conversion, but not all languages that are supported by Office.

When running certain apps on Windows 10 desktop or Windows 10 Mobile, some characters display as a square or rectangular box, or as a box with a dot, question mark or “x” inside, while the same app running on earlier Windows or Windows Phone versions did not have this problem.

Open an Office program, such as Word. Select File > Options > Language. Under Office display language, on the Set the Office Language Preferences, select Install additional display languages from Office.com. Choose the desired language in the Add an authoring language dialog and then select Add.

If Chinese, Japanese, or Korean is your primary browser language, you'll see localized fonts names for fonts that support Chinese, Japanese, or Korean names. For example, if your browser use Japanese as its primary language, you'll see MS 明朝 listed in modern font picker rather than MS Mincho .