Troubleshoot working with East Asian Text

The feature described in this Help topic is available only if support for an East Asian language is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

Publisher doesn't insert a page where I want it

The page order of your publication may be different from what you expected.
You can change the order of the pages so that your page is inserted correctly.

  1. On the File menu, click Page Setup.
  2. On the Layout tab, under Publication Type, select the Right-to-left page order checkbox.
  3. Click OK.

Date/time is not vertical in vertical text flow

When you insert a date and time using half-width characters in a vertical text, the characters remain as horizontal text. To format them as vertical text, enter a date and time using full-width characters.

  1. Select the text box where you want to insert date and time.
  2. On the Insert menu, click Date/Time.
  3. Select the Use full-width characters checkbox.
  4. Click OK.

Note   Date and Time inserted using full-width characters will not be updated automatically.

Tip

Another way to format date and time as vertical text is to apply horizontal-in-vertical formatting (IHIV) to half-width characters.

I can't select an entire East Asian word

The When formatting, automatically format entire word (Tools menu, Options, Edit tab) option does not apply to Japanese and Korean text.