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>Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:41:06 -0400
>From: Carine Ullom <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: LLTI <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Japanese IME question

Hello,
I have a faculty member who is trying to use the Japanese IME with Word
2000 (w/Windows 2000).  She says she has no trouble using it to produce
Katakana and Hiragana but it's a nightmare when she tries to use it for
Kanji. Apparently she has to hunt for the character she wants among
several dozen choices (rather than half a dozen as with the other
characer sets) and it takes forever.   I'm at a loss to help her as I
know nothing about Japanese characters.  She wants to give up on IME and
order KanjiKit 2000, which she says makes typing Kanji much easier (she
used KanjiKit 97 a few years ago).  I'd rather avoid supporting another
piece of software and thus would like to find out if her problems are
possibly related to user error or if in fact IME isn't all that great
for producing Kanji characters.
As always, thanks in advance for your help/advice,
Carine

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Carine Ullom
Director, Language Resource Center/
Instructional Technology Specialist
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
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