Combine East Asian characters

The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only available if support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Korean is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

1. Select the characters you want to compress.
2. On the Format menu, point to Asian Layout, and then click Combine Characters.
3. In the Font and Size boxes, set the font and font size you want.
4. To change all instances of the selected text, click Change All, and then specify whether you want to compress only the selected text or all identical text strings in the selected section or document. This button is not available in all languages.

Notes

• The maximum number of characters that can be combined is six. To combine more characters, compress two lines in one.
• To clear the compressed character formatting, select the compressed characters, and click Remove in the Combine Characters dialog box.