Learn how to download, install, and configure additional language packs for your version of Windows.

Microsoft Japanese IME is available in currently supported versions of Windows. If any issues are encountered with the current version of IME, IME supports a compatibility setting that allows using the previous version of IME instead.

Set the region, device language, and spoken language for your products and services.

Find and use the language bar to switch to a different language for your keyboard layout.

Learn how to change Windows display language and keyboard/input layout settings. These settings affect the language displayed in Windows, in apps, and at websites.

On the Review tab, go to Language. Select Language, choose Set Proofing Language, and then pick Detect language automatically. In Office, the language options are in the Office Language Preferences dialog box. The display and authoring languages can be set independently.

Make sure an IME supported language, such as Japanese, is installed and selected. An IME language can be selected from the language icon in the system tray area of the taskbar. For more information on installing a language, see Install a language pack.

Microsoft SwiftKey uses a standard structure for Japanese, mainly including: We hope those technical names will help you have a better understanding of how Japanese works on your Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard. Hiragana layout. Romaji layout. Candidate bar. Extended candidate menu.

First, make sure you change the editing language to Japanese. Then you can view the font style, font size, and alignment of furigana, a phonetic reading aid, in Excel Online for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Hong-Kong languages and regions. You can even make minor changes to the text.

If some function keys aren't working the way they used to, they might be reserved for Japanese language functions. Some versions of the Microsoft Japanese IME reserve function keys for language shortcuts when text is selected.