Setting multiple default faults

[Elahrairah]

I'm trying to find a way in Office 2008 to set a default font for multiple languages. In my case, I would like to use one font when typing in English and a different default when I switch to Japanese. Any suggestions?

 

[John McGhie]

You want multiple defaults, one for each language?

I think the easiest way to do this is to create two sets of Styles: One for
English, the other for Japanese.

You can explicitly set the fonts in each style, which gives you great
flexibility.

Word automatically changes "Keyboard" if you switch languages. But they
won't necessarily change the font.

If you are using Unicode fonts, whenever you type a character, Word looks in
the current font, and if it does not have the character, Word then works
outwards in a circle from the current font around the closest-looking fonts
available until it finds the required character.

But you cannot control the sequence in which this happens (except
negatively, but disabling the fonts you do NOT want it to use...).

I would use Styles. You can use Customise to add styles to toolbars. If
you were to create a toolbar for each language, you could find this quite
convenient. It's not much work to set it up, and after that, it's just a
matter of revealing the Japanese toolbar whenever you want to type Japanese.
All the styles on it can be pre-defined to format in you favourite Japanese
fonts. Etc.

Hope this helps

I'm trying to find a way in Office 2008 to set a default font for multiple
languages. In my case, I would like to use one font when typing in English and
a different default when I switch to Japanese. Any suggestions?

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[Guest]

Thanks for the advice! This is the approach that I had been using, which works great when switching from English to Japanese, but not when switching back to English. The font sticks on whatever I had been typing in in Japanese. Constantly manually switching fonts is a pain.

 

[djaneb]

I am new to Word for Mac and did this last night - I am creating
tables in English and Greek. I created a style for the English column
and a style for the Greek column just by assigning the font. The Greek
font includes the placement of breathings. It works great. I don't
change the keyboard myself but when I switch styles the keyboard
appears to switch so that the when I type a key that inserts a
breathing it backspaces and places the breathing over the top of the
letter.

Deborah