Chinese fonts on Office v. X

[James Chang]

I am having problems reading my documents that I receive from Taiwan and
China (both simplified and traditional characters). When I usually receive
an email with Chinese. . . I copy/paste them to Sherlock's translator and
viola!. . . I get English. . . But this is not the case with attachments
from emails in the form of excel or word files. I usually first have an
issue in trying to find out which font they used so that the Chinese
characters come out. Once they come out, I can print it out. . .but I need
them translated. . . Unfortunately, I cannot copy/paste the characters at
all. . .which seem to be ASCII characters. . . .and can't use the Sherlock
translating feature. . . So if anyone could offer any suggestions. . .
Thanks

 

[Gene van Troyer]

I am having problems reading my documents that I receive from Taiwan and
China (both simplified and traditional characters). When I usually receive
an email with Chinese. . . I copy/paste them to Sherlock's translator and
viola!. . . I get English. . . But this is not the case with attachments
from emails in the form of excel or word files. I usually first have an
issue in trying to find out which font they used so that the Chinese
characters come out. Once they come out, I can print it out. . .but I need
them translated. . . Unfortunately, I cannot copy/paste the characters at
all. . .which seem to be ASCII characters. . . .and can't use the Sherlock
translating feature. . . So if anyone could offer any suggestions. . .
Thanks

Have you visited the Chinese Mac web site at Yale university?

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac

You may find some useful information there for Chinese in Office v.X. As you
perhaps know, Entourage handles text encodings differently from the other
Office apps, which are not Chinese character friendly.

Office 2004, on the other hand, may be a solution worth considering...

Gene van Troyer