Special character operations

Various special functions related to characters and character sets may be found in the Change Character Format submenu.

To change the case of selected text
  1. Select the desired text.
  2. On the Custom toolbar, click Change Character Format, and then select Change Case. (If Change Character Format is not visible, add it to the toolbar by selecting Tools on the Categories list and Change Character Format on the Commands list on the Customize dialog box.)
  3. Select the desired case and click OK.
To change the width of double-byte Asian characters
  1. Select the desired Asian text.
  2. On the Custom toolbar, click Change Character Format, and then select Change Character Width.
  3. Click either Full-width or Half-width.
  4. Under Target, select the types of characters to change.
  5. Click OK.
To convert between Hiragana and Katakana
  1. Select the desired Japanese text.
  2. On the Custom toolbar, click Change Character Format, and then select Convert Hiragana/Katakana.
  3. Select the desired change and click OK.
To convert symbols in the selected text to double-byte characters

When a document containing double-byte characters has been opened in a text editor using a single-byte character set and then saved, the double-byte characters may have been with ASCII codes. If this has happened, you can recover the original characters using the Convert Symbols to DBCS command.

  1. Select the text to be converted.
  2. On the Custom toolbar, click Change Character Format, and then select Convert Symbols to DBCS.

Special character operations