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>From: "Carine Ullom" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
>Cc: "Yoko Chiba" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: KanjiKit 97 vs. IME (Word 2000)
>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:01:34 -0400

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Hello again,
The saga regarding Japanese character problems continues here.  Thank you to
all who wrote to say your colleagues use IME with no trouble to write
katakana, hiragana, and kanji.  It did turn out to be user error on our end.
However, now we have a new wrinkle.  We have many documents created with
KanjiKit 97 (in Word 97) and, when, opened in IME 2002 (the edition for
Office XP Home Edition) using Word 2000, are a mess.... the familiar array
of "strange characters" and empty boxes.  Can anyone shed light on whether
there could be any way to display these documents correctly in the
environment I've described?  In case it matters, the Japanese Proofing Tools
have been installed on the WinXP machine in question.  Would we be smart to
buy KanjiKit 2000 and open all of the documents with it first and save them
in some way so that Word 2000 will recognize and display the characters
correctly?  Anyone familiar with the intricacies of KanjiKit 97 vs. 2000 or
KanjiKit vs. IME?
Thanks in advance!
Carine Ullom
St. Lawrence University